Word: perdita
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...theater. Inevitably, Alex steps through Playwright Bliss's looking glass, when she goes to work for him as his secretary. Bliss is an homme fatal, one of those men three-quarters of whose present consists of past. But Alex keeps calm till Geoffrey casts a luscious peeress, Lady Perdita Carne, in his medieval spectacle play Ludovic II. The soap operantics of Ask Me No More are made palatable by a knowing re-creation of the London theater, lively dialogue that is often outrageously punny ( "Anouilh, get your gun"), and a couple of cocktail party scenes laced with name-dribbling...
Inga Swenson is a charming adolescent Perdita, who has the loveliest speech about flowers in the English tongue. Richard Easton and Will Geer are appealing as her princely suitor and her foster-father shepherd...