Word: muny
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...semi-crouch, like a boxer"; Joan Crawford is a "microphone-clutcher," while Barbara Stanwyck is a "shoe-taker-offer." Don Ameche (with Loretta Young and Fred MacMurray, he is tied for the record with 21 appearances) drinks a pint of milk before each show "as a sedative." Paul Muni once played his violin right up to curtain time "to soothe his nerves...
...this massive and relentless play." The Daily Express was ecstatic: "This play seems to lay the soul of America bare, throws across the footlights, flat in your face, all the hopes, fears, frustrations, inhibitions and terrible yearnings of a nation . . ." Stylish first-nighters, equally moved brought back Paul Muni (who played Willy) and his cast for 15 curtain calls. Said one sequined dowager: "I don't think I understood it all, but I certainly feel weak...
Other public figures were branded as Communist sympathizers. Among them were March's wife, Florence Eldridge, Boston University President Daniel L. Marsh, Radio Writer Norman Corwin and Cinema Stars Edward G. Robinson, Sylvia Sidney, Paul Muni, John Garfield and Melvyn Douglas, husband of California's Democratic Congresswoman Helen Gahagan Douglas. Outraged and vehement denials and sardonic evasions flew from coast to coast...
This Year, Israel (Sun. 4:30 p.m., CBS). Passover drama, with Paul Muni...
Reversing a more usual stage procedure, They Knew What They Wanted is a soppy play with a sensible ending. And to reach the right destination, it takes a very slow course through extremely flat country. There is endless talk, much of it in rather baffling broken English. Paul Muni's performance as the husband is studiously misconceived. Carol Stone is almost as much out of line, though more likable, as the girl. In every respect, old-hat playwriting has received a straw-hat production...