Word: melvyn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SPOFFORD. Playwright-Director Herman Shumlin has performed an autopsy on Peter DeVries' novel Reuben, Reuben. Melvyn Douglas gives a cunningly ingratiating performance as a retired Connecticut Yankee chicken farmer who finds New York commuters the bane and boon of his existence. The melancholy fact remains that like an obituary an adaptation of a novel to the stage says good things of the dead without restoring them to life...
...SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11 p.m.). Hud (1963), starring Paul Newman, Patricia Neal, Melvyn Douglas and Brandon de Wilde...
...Gentle into That Good Night, had Melvyn Douglas shunted off to a nursing home by his grown children. ABC, in Johnny Belinda, showed Mia Farrow, in a waist-length wig, playing a deaf-mute who is raped and framed for murder; and an updated version of its 1966 documentary, The Long Childhood of Jimmy...
Thursday, May 4 THE CRUCIBLE (CBS, 9-11:15 p.m.). George C. Scott again, in Arthur Miller's drama of witch hunting, with Colleen Dewhurst, Fritz Weaver, Tuesday Weld, Melvyn Douglas...
...Theater Group. At U.C.L.A.'s Schoenberg Hall: The Birthday Party, by Harold Pinter, through Aug. 28; The Flies, by Jean-Paul Sartre, Sept. 6-Oct. 9. Association of Producing Artists. At the Huntington Hartford Theater: Richard Brinsley Sheridan's The School for Scandal, starring Helen Hayes and Melvyn Douglas, Aug. 8-13; George Kaufman and Moss Hart's You Can't Take It With You, Aug. 15-20; Luigi Pirandello's Right You Are If You Think You Are, Aug. 22-27. At the Greek Theater: an adaptation of Leo Tolstoy...