Word: nugent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Male Animal (by James Thurber & Elliott Nugent; produced by Herman Shumlin) provides Broadway-in a season rich only in comedy-with another comedy hit. A frail, rachitic tyke of a play, with barely enough clothes to cover it, The Male Animal manages to captivate by its impish tongue and winning smile. It resembles a dinner party where there isn't nearly enough food but where the conversation is so amusing that nobody minds...
James Thurber, famous for illustrating The War Between the Sexes with his runaway pencil, has carried the combat to the stage. The Male Animal tells of a young English professor (Elliott Nugent) who has all the trouble that Thurber thinks the male animal is born to. The prof gets branded a Red for wanting to read one of Vanzetti's letters to his class. He gets all tangled up with his wife when an old sweetheart of hers comes to town for a football game. A Milquetoast by nature, the professor quaffs too much of the cup that emboldens...