Word: miramova
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...these days, she writes a play in which only she can star. "Dark Eyes," this week's offering at the Cambridge Summer Theatre is by several such actresses and concerns their escapades in trying to get their play produced. Originally produced on Broadway with the autsshors, Elena Miramova and Eugenie Leontovich, in the cast, the transition from the big time to straw hat seems to have taken its toll and proved one thing: that only Mirainova and Leontovich can star in this show...
...play was written (they say on Broadway) by Nunally Johnson, and by-lined by Elena Miramova and Eugenie Leontovitch. It is well put on by Jed Harris, and the acting contains no really bad hackers. You could do worse...
Dark Eyes (by Elena Miramova and Eugenie Leontovich; produced by Jed Harris). Russian-American Actresses Miramova and Leontovich have scribbled a farce about Russian-American actresses and handed themselves the two gaudiest roles. They have banged away at the Slavic artistic temperament as if it were a set of bowling pins. Their game is good and rackety, their score not too high...
...Miramova's and Leontovich's skillful acting helps to hide their wobbly playwriting, and Jed Harris' expert direction helps further. But a whole evening of temperament, even when it is spoofed, is pretty monotonous. When it is Russian temperament to boot, it becomes downright exhausting...
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