Word: ruth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...place that two years ago was hovering dangerously close to bankruptcy. But last week, Defiance played host to a man who had traveled 575 miles to lay the cornerstone of its new library. "I am here," explained President Dwight Eisenhower, "because of my affection and admiration for Kevin and Ruth McCann...
...Actress. Ruth Gordon's hit comedy about stagestruck adolescence, with Spencer Tracy, Teresa Wright, Jean Simmons (TIME...
...Actress (MGM) was an expert comedy when Actress Ruth Gordon wrote it for the stage (as Years Ago, it ran for six months in 1947), and it is an expert comedy now that she has rewritten it for the screen. However, it is no more than expertise. Playwright-Actress Gordon is too cool a professional ever to let sentiment interfere with business, which in this instance, when she is writing about her own girlhood, means that a true feeling is never allowed to foul up a good line. Nevertheless, The Actress offers an unusually pleasant evening at the movies...
...center stage is 16-year-old Ruth herself, gracefully if a little lymphatically portrayed by Jean Simmons. All the dear child has in her head is the idea that she, too, can be a famous actress. She has told mother (excellently played by Teresa Wright) all about her ambition, but mother does not dare to tell father-a role in which Spencer Tracy does his most satisfying work of recent years...
Perhaps the key to what Ruth Gordon's play, Years Ago, lost in Hollywood is shown in the change of title. Years Ago, with its straightforward, unpretentious title was exactly that type of play: direct, pleasant nostalgia with no particular aim but a considerable degree of warmth. The film version is now called The Actress, and the mood has been changed accordingly. It is now a large-scale production. The fragile plot is pointed up to take on the broad proportions the new name implies. And since Miss Gordon's delicate material would not sharpen to that extent, the picture...