Word: natwick
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with a classic stage theme: a fight over a will. It uses classic combatants: the disinherited black sheep and his self-righteous brother. As the glib playboy with a rusting charm (Richard Basehart) and the sententious prig with a rankling virtue (Kevin McCarthy) trade slurs-while their sister (Mildred Natwick) waves an olive branch -they lay siege to the holdings in the family vault via the skeletons in the family closet. Out, eventually, clatter illegitimacies and suicides and a crushed father image. And the disinherited playboy, at the end, has wangled twenty grand, only to spurn...
...dictionary of U.S. criminal argot, the play explored a quaint old vein of humor among thieves: Lahr, as a low man on the totem pole of crime, joined another aging juvenile delinquent (Fred Gwynne) to rob an armored car of $1,000,000 just to impress a lady (Mildred Natwick). Playing a sometime short-order cook whose sauces could give a hamburger that certain "jenny-say-kwah," Lahr mugged, pranced, bellowed ("Ngha, ngha, ngha-a-a-a-!"), did all that a master's timing could do for some jokes so long-fused they may explode on next week...
...play is often uproarious farce through the blunt savagery of its incidents. There are wild moments involving the Other Woman or all the other women; there are aborted female "suicides" and aborted man-of-honor duels; and there is Mildred Natwick, as the wife, gorgeously spewing bedroom billingsgate and hilariously shifting from an invalid's helplessness to an athlete's violence. But out of the mouth of farce-like cold water from the mouth of a fountain gargoyle-flows a stream of cold wisdom. Anouilh uses the coarse, truthful exaggerations of caricature deliberately to offset the genteel evasions...
There is a villain (Basil Rathbone), a palace witch (Mildred Natwick), a princess royal (Angela Lansbury) and a political poison plot. When the squirrely-burly's done, Jester Kaye has managed to get the false king on his knees, the true one on the throne, the heroine (Glynis Johns) in his arms, the villain on his point, and the audience happily lost in some muddle ages that no history book records...
...show itself was one of the highlights of a drama-studded week. In telling the story of a husband bedeviled by the ghost of his first wife (and then of his second wife), Coward got notable support from Mildred Natwick, who played a zany medium with all the comic zest she had brought to the part in its Broadway opening some 15 years ago. Claudette Colbert and Lauren Bacall, as the materializing wives, looked their parts more adequately than they played them, and Actress Bacall sometimes seemed uneasy when reciting the litany of her infidelities, as if she expected...