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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...John Turner's producation, several of the lead characters are as fully and forcibly acted as Wicherley drew them. The butt for most of the bitter satire, Olivia--an insatiable gossip, scandalmonger and flirt--far surpasses a mere personification of hypocrisy through the impeccable performance of Susie Fisher. The moral horror felt by the playwright at the sight of such a character is infused into the audience. John Sedgwick is an entertaining Freeman, the eloquent mouthpiece for some of Wycherley's most incisive observation...

Author: By Janny P. Scott, | Title: A Comedy of Airs | 4/20/1974 | See Source »

QUINCY HOUSE--Dangerous, with Bette Davis, at 8 p.m., and Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte, with Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, and Agnes Moorehead at 10 p.m., Friday and Saturday, February...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard | 2/14/1974 | See Source »

Adventures of Robin Hood, 1938 version with Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland, Channel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: television | 1/17/1974 | See Source »

Though somewhat less inspired, the courtly side of the plot unfolds with the decorum and irony fitting the overactive imagination of the Count and his sought-after Olivia. As the rejected lover, the Count dons black and hangs his court in purple, while the Lady, mourning her dead brother, parades about in black and purple lace...

Author: By Elizabeth Healy, | Title: Sin As Its Own Reward | 12/15/1973 | See Source »

...smiles bravely; and there is a peppy song-and-dance number, kind of a Donald O'Connor comic turn, by Bobby Van, who is most engaging as a show-biz ham. Sally Kellerman plays a neurotic Newsweek correspondent. Also on hand are John Gielgud, George Kennedy, Michael York, Olivia Hussey, James Shigeta and, as the dying High Lama, Charles Boyer, of all people. It is a long way from the Casbah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Over the Rainbow | 4/2/1973 | See Source »

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