Word: roussin
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Dates: during 1951-1951
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Nina (adapted by Samuel Taylor from a play by Andre Roussin) created something of a ruckus before reaching Broadway. Gloria Swanson, who plays the title role, snarled publicly at Gregory Ratoff's direction, sneered at the play and threatened to quit. On Broadway the play itself should cause much less stir. It can best be described as very French in plot, and not nearly French enough in manner...
Take a basically funny situation, put in the first act of a play, discuss it for an hour and forty minutes, and you have the substance of the new play at the Shubert, a French farce comedy, written by Andre Roussin, and adapted for America by Samuel Taylor...