Word: nora
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pretensions keep his wife Nora and his ambitious daughter Sara in poverty. Melody will not tend bar--he has hired a barkeep. His daughter must wait on table while he drinks away the meager profits, and he keeps the establishment in debt through the extravagant upkeep of his greatest joy, a white thoroughbred mare...
...Nora, on the other hand, loves all her husband's fantasies. But he is repelled by her because her peasant brogue and stooped figure recall his unaristocratic marriage...
...Charles has done beautiful things with the great possibilities for humor and anguish that do exist in Poet. Leigh Warton is superb as Cornelius Melody--the role brings out the qualities in any versatile actor. Katherine Squire plays his wife Nora with a simplicity that suggests deep understanding of her role. As Sara, Miss Alexander has the most demanding job, and particularly in the third act she is wonderful. But her accent is too American--it lies nowhere between her father's aristocratic tone and her mother's brogue--and some of her movements are not fitting...
Connie Abramson, who plays Maurya, is too harsh throughout, screaming lines she should properly mutter or let fall without ado. 'Anne Bernstein, as Nora, is too tragic for a 14-year old girl, and she seems inclined to sob or sigh when she feels like it rather than in response anyone else's lines. David Handlin does not appear to know how he should act, but he has the grace to underplay, and his Bartley comes out natural, if a little weak...
...dollops of sentiment and a formula ending flaw the otherwise engaging and perceptive script by Nora and Nunnally Johnson. Though droll performances are rung up by Prentiss, Sellers and Angela Lansbury (as Tippy's pampered, promiscuous mother), all are up against a force of nature as potent as Disneyland. Director George Roy Hill is obviously happy to let the camera ogle while his half-pint scene stealers do their stuff. And why not? It's grand larceny...