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...Touch of the Poet. Eugene O'Neill is as long-winded as ever, but it's a powerful wind that blows a lot of good in this tale of a boozing innkeeper and his crumbling illusions. With Eric Portman, Kim Stanley, Helen Hayes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA,TELEVISION,THEATER: Time Listings, Feb. 2, 1959 | 2/2/1959 | See Source »

...Touch of the Poet. Eugene O'Neill's early American alcoholic innkeeper may be more gabby than necessary, but an evening with the doomed dreamer (Eric Portman) adds up to fine theater...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Jan. 12, 1959 | 1/12/1959 | See Source »

...Touch of the Poet. A garrulous, alcoholic innkeeper, his dream world gone awry, gives Playwright Eugene O'Neill an excuse for a little too much talk, but the evening still adds up to fine theater. With Eric Portman, Helen Hayes, Kim Stanley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Dec. 22, 1958 | 12/22/1958 | See Source »

Then there was the problem of casting. Rattigan's writing, clever as it was, seemed to Broadway audiences no more than piquant sauce at a histrionic banquet for two of the theater's most exquisitely mannered scenery chewers: Margaret Leighton and Eric Portman, who played all four of the show's principal parts (TIME, Nov. 5, 1956). Obviously, the movie people could not hope to match that, so they set out to do better-by providing their picture with one of the screen's most gifted young directors, Delbert (Bachelor Party) Mann, and with what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Dec. 15, 1958 | 12/15/1958 | See Source »

...Touch of the Poet. Eugene O'Neill is as long-winded as ever, but it's a powerful wind that blows a lot of good in this tale of a boozing innkeeper and his crumbling illusions. With Eric Portman, Helen Hayes, Kim Stanley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA,TELEVISION,THEATER,BOOKS: From Hollywood | 12/15/1958 | See Source »

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