Word: miscasts
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...only other good performance besides Hull, is given by Richard Waring. But he is miscast. His English-trained voice is unable to grapple with American dialect and he gives the impression of a frustrated Shakespearean player...
...Smith and Kevin McCarthy merely bang away at the two male roles. And Celeste Holm-a fine comedienne who is miscast-quietly fails in the role to which Pauline Lord, in 1921, tremulously brought something of the tragic sense of life...
...whom Anouilh grants a rather mawkish victory. The play has its merits. Amid so many varieties of love, it at least excludes Hollywood's. There are vivid counterpointings, piquant juxtapositions. Eldon Elder's set is splendidly striking; and though Dorothy McGuire seems partly mystified and partly miscast as the girl, Richard Burton, as her lover, plays a difficult role persuasively. But the play grows tedious with saucy twists and lethargic with the fumes of Nachtkultur. When it doesn't seem all too French, it seems much too German...
...YORK A Bookie in Command In a crowded Brooklyn courtroom one day last week, all the principals seemed to be playing the wrong roles. The judge was ranting, the hard-boiled D.A. was sobbing and a bookie was looking down his nose at both of them. This miscast scene was the unexpected end of New York's biggest police-graft trial since...
...production is far from happy. Even its most talented performers fall short of themselves: Clive Brook's sufferings are too mannered, and Margaret Phillips, in a Katharine Hepburn-ish role, seems decidedly miscast...