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...BALLAD OF THE SAD CAFE. Brawny Colleen Dewhurst is matched with Michael Dunn, a prancing, saturnine dwarf, in Edward Albee's enigmatic adaptation of Carson McCuller's novella. The play retains some of the moody ambiguity of the original, but lacks more than a fragmentary stage life...
...Broadway THE BALLAD OF THE SAD CAFÉ, as adapted by Edward Albee from Carson McCullers' novella, reproduces the story's mood of Southern grotesquerie. Unfortunately, the play itself is wispy and intangible, despite the strenuous acting efforts of Colleen Dewhurst and Michael Dunn...
...BALLAD OF THE SAD CAFÉ, as adapted by Edward Albee from Carson McCullers' novella, reproduces the story's mood of Southern grotesquerie. Unfortunately, the play itself is wispy and intangible despite the strenuous acting efforts of Colleen Dewhurst and Michael Dunn...
Dark & Charmed. Based on a novella by Robert Louis Stevenson, Thomas' movie was commissioned in the late '40s by a subsidiary of the J. Arthur Rank organization. But Rank dissolved the subsidiary before the film could be produced, and the script vanished into the Rank bank. Richard Burton owns it now, in partnership with a New York producer, and sooner or later Burton intends to commit the story to film, with himself starring as an island trader named Wiltshire...
Something between a slender novella and a fat short story, the book is set in the imaginary and chivalric German Grand Duchy of Babenhausen, more than a century ago. Told half in the recollections of a worldly old lady, half in the florid letters of an artist to a countess of the court, Isak Dinesen's baroque tale chronicles an attempted seduction-but not of the usual sort. The artist, Herr Cazotte, has laid siege to Ehrengard (literally "guard of honor"), an innocent blonde Walkyrie serving as maid of honor to a princess in an idyllic summer court...