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Prejudiced as I am toward fantastic plots and Rex Harrison and Lilli Palmer, I will start off by admitting that I liked The Love of Four Colonels. However, it is not a very good play. Despite all the curled-lip suavity of Harrison and the charming frivolity of Lilli Palmer, the characters and the situations in the play are horribly stereotyped. The American, the British, the French and the Russian officers billeted together in a small, neutral German province all act like animated caricatures. And when the door of their quarters bursts open by itself on a windless night...
Jones--a designer, producer, and director--is, according to MacLeish, "one of the foremost scenic designers in the country." He has done the designing for Marc Connelly's "Green Pastures," Eugene O'Neill's "The Iceman Cometh," and Alban Berg's opera, "Wozzeck." He has also done "Oedipus Rex," "Macbeth," and "Richard III." Jones began work in designing for color films as early...
Omnibus (Sun. 4:30 p.m., CBS). Premiere of a Ford TV Workshop production, featuring original plays by William Saroyan and Maxwell Anderson, with Rex Harrison and Lilli Palmer...
...point of a bedchamber in a Manhattan brownstone: the turn-of-the-century wedding night; the arrival of the first baby; the crisis over the other woman; the son's death in World War I; the daughter's wedding in the jazz-mad '20s; the husband (Rex Harrison) reliving the high spots of the marriage with the vision of his departed wife (Lilli Palmer) just before he, too, dies...
...theatrical tour de force that capitalized on the physical limitations of the stage. But on the expansive screen, it becomes a motion picture with a minimum of motion and a maximum of sugary sentiment. The result is a fourposter that often creaks and sags. England's suave Rex Harrison and Lilli Palmer, his real-life wife, play their parts smoothly, though they sometimes seem over-sophisticated for the homey couple they are supposed to be. The picture owes nothing to the stage original for its outstanding feature: a gaily animated cartoon that bridges sequences, depicting the changing world outside...