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...picture is based on Playwright Clare Boothe Luce's 1936 play, The Women. The play was made into a picture in 1939, and audiences of that time enjoyed the satirical thrusts and hair-pulling matches. In this version, however, Producer Joe Pasternak has sugared everything up with pretty Metrocolor, with June Allyson, who plays the spirited heroine as a teary little dearie, and with a batch of sentimental tunes. Worse still, the Fay and Michael Kanin script carelessly tosses away one of the play's best ideas. There are men in the picture. In the play, men never...
Though the stars are the same and the playwright wrote the script himself, the movie has lost the play's subtlety and charm. Metrocolor, the wide screen, and a new ending don't add much to what is left of Tea and Sympathy...