Word: melodrama
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...Adams DeMille, 87, publicity-shunning wife of Hollywood's late great showman, Cecil B. DeMille; of pneumonia ; in Hollywood. An actress over the protests of her New Jersey judge father, she married DeMille in 1902, two years after they had met in the cast of the Charles Frohman melodrama, Hearts Are Trumps, trouped with him for several years before he entered producing and theater management. In 1913, when DeMille gave up the stage altogether for moviemaking, she told him, "Do what you think right and I will be with you" - she was for almost 57 years until his death...
...some reason, the only way out of this dilemma seems to be suicide, but before the girl jumps out of a window, she manages to spread the impression that the villain was not her boss, but a footloose social worker named Benjamin Franklin Ivey. The preposterous melodrama that hinges on this case of mistaken paternity is remotely interesting only because perennially bestselling Author Weidman (I Can Get It for You Wholesale, The Enemy Camp) has fashioned Ben Ivey in the unmistakable outer image of Harry Hopkins, that famed, dark-grey eminence of the New Deal...
...performance and a rehearsal allegedly held earlier in the day. In the midst of this historical grab-bag, it seemed occasionally as though director Nancy Swortzell (Mr. Swortzell's wife) had lost sight of the play. This was unfortunate because although "Our American Cousin" was written as a melodrama, it achieved its fame as a burlesque of the melodrama form and for this type of show very carefully stylized and postured acting is required. Dana Bates and Seabury Quinn, Jr. managed the proper tone, but most of the rest of the company seemed ill at ease...
Toys in the Attic. Lillian Hellman's melodrama about the doomed conspiracy of three women to regain their control over an engaging leech, well acted by Jason Robards...
Toys in the Attic. Lillian Hellman's melodrama about the doomed conspiracy of three women to regain their control over an engaging leech (Jason Robards...