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...typed as a villain in silent films, but when sound arrived, Powell became an expert at sophisticated comedy, appearing in such films as My Man Godfrey, The Great Ziegfeld (both 1936) and most unforgettably the six Thin Man movies (1934-47), in which he and Co-Star Myrna Loy were Nick and Nora Charles, the models for dozens of witty Hollywood sleuths to follow. Powell aged gracefully onscreen, playing the irascible patriarch in the 1947 film Life With Father (for which he received one of his three Oscar nominations) and the ship's doctor in his final film, Mister...
...They substitute double or sextuple entendre, as when Taylor says, "I feel rather scared of marriage really," looking out at the audience with the eyes of a wounded doe. What the Elyot-Amanda roles call for is the sort of fond nonchalance and glancing asperity that William Powell and Myrna Loy brought to Nick and Nora Charles in The Thin Man series. What Taylor's role model was for her part is undecipherable; it comes out as some sort of compromise between Mata Hari and Lady Macbeth. Inflection, which is paramount with a Coward line, is either beneath...
...Myrna M. Oliver...
Other characters come off somewhat better. Freshman Merv Griffin gives a feeling of honesty to his role of Curtis Mann, the Janitor-turned-member of the band. Myrna Gellman (Sabrina Peck) has one of the livelier roles, and Peck provides the infectious enthusiasm and strong singing that the play must have to survive. Other characters: the British corporate heir of clipped accents and buried principles (Anthony Calnek) or the young committed activist, Barbara MacNeil (Sue Morris), carry off competent portrayals of paper-mache stereotypes...
...thinking still falsely tends to take age as a sure index of vitality. The stereotype of an old person as a doddering, drooling, irrelevant nuisance is much circulated. Beyond some uncertain year, people are often regarded as having little or no need for earthly pleasures, particularly sexual ones. Says Myrna Lewis, co-author of Sex After Sixty: "Children carry a double standard that older people should be monogamous or celibate just because they...