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Jack ("I'm live!") Paar had hardly launched himself as NBC's bright weeknightly answer to late movies when he began playing Pygmalion to a professionally addled Galatea from Ohio, orange-topped Dolores ("Dody") Martha Goodman, "aged 29" (real age: 43). By last week, seven months later, the comedienne that Jack built had "disenchanted" her creator, and Paar felt less a Pygmalion than a Frankenstein. "Sweet little Midwestern Dody," he snorted. "Brother! And we did it-we made...
...work begins when Mrs. Campbell was at the peak of her career and Shaw a merely notorious pamphleteer. Act I contains the story of Shaw's plea to Mrs. Campbell to take the role of Liza in Pygmalion, her frightful automobile accident (which she thought had ended her career), and the final triumph of the opening night. In this act, Kilty turned his play into a play about a play and slipped in and out of actual rehearsals of scenes from Pygmalion...
Saint Joan (Preminger; United Artists) performs, with the greatest of ease, the feat of turning Shaw into pshaw. Given what is probably the master's masterpiece, Producer-Director Otto Preminger (The Man with the Golden Arm) has concluded what is certainly the feeblest of the five films-Pygmalion, Major Barbara, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles and the Lion are the others-that have been made from Shaw's plays...
...Fair Lady (from Shaw's Pygmalion), a holdover from last season that is still blooming after some 400 performances, pouring back profits to CBS, its sole angel ($401,000), which got exclusive television rights. Except for stray seats, My Fair Lady is dated up until September. Other hits from past seasons that are still flourishing are Frank Loesser's operatic The Most Happy Fella, and Damn Yankees, a rollicking tale of sex, baseball and the devil...
...world usually views it. Says she: "I am more attracted by the trunk of a dead tree than by an apple tree in full bloom." Along with such dissimilar sculptors as Swiss-born Alberto Giacometti and Brit ain's Henry Moore, Germaine Richier takes her stand as a Pygmalion-in-reverse. Rather than working inert sculptor's materials to the polished, lifelike perfection of idealized beauty, she clings to the magic moment of metamorphosis, when half-glimpsed form begins to emerge from mute matter...