Word: prankish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...idea of a sort of highborn Oxford, circa 1900, fits the play's alfresco gaieties, elaborate forms, donnish humor and prankish but decorous lovemaking. In individual roles, such players as Joseph Schildkraut and Philip Bourneuf enliven the proceedings. The speeches at times are blurred, but the play's peculiarly Shakespearean finale, with its melancholy charm, is beautifully achieved. Says one of the lovers...
...gentle, friendly lush named Elwood P. Dowd. The movie adapters of Mary Chase's Pulitzer Prize comedy have blessedly resisted the temptation to coax Harvey into full view.* Up to a point, they have even managed to recapture some of the Broadway production's daffy charm and prankish fun, and they have kept all of Josephine (Arsenic and Old Lace) Hull as its fluttery leading lady...