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...Samson Raphaelson's Hilda Crane brings the star of Streetcar back to Broadway for a fine portrayal of a girl who loved a college professor but married a lawnmower manufacturer. Raphaelson and Miss Tandy, the critics claim, are excellent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NYC Seethes with Entertainment for Holidays | 12/19/1950 | See Source »

Hilda Crane (by Samson Raphaelson; produced by Arthur Schwartz) is purely synthetic stuff, but it is chock-full of what a lot of people mean when they speak of a play. It dramatizes the problem of a woman-a woman twice married and divorced, passionate by nature, restless in spirit, divided in mind. In a chastened mood, she marries an admiring dullard she doesn't love, embraces a provincial and domestic existence that cannot last. The play possesses a full pack of such characters as the tough-minded mother (Beulah Bondi) and the son-worshiping mother-in-law (Evelyn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Nov. 13, 1950 | 11/13/1950 | See Source »

There was more noise made about this one than about almost any film since "Samson and Delilah." This is the one billboards and match covers have been booming as "A most unusual motion picture," a statement I won't dispute. But when the ads go on to peg it as a certain successor to "The Lost Weekend" in the Oscar department, then I must beg to differ...

Author: By Arne L. Schoellor, | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 9/29/1950 | See Source »

...that the plaintiff [Esther] thought there were a few drops in the orange [Louis] left to squeeze, and that she [Esther] wanted more money." Jean Starr, 64, testified that Untermeyer had told her: "[Esther] has threatened to bring the temple down about my ears the way Delilah did with Samson." As well as any man could, Untermeyer summed up the situation: "I admit that my whole state of mind is one of confusion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Hearth & Home | 6/12/1950 | See Source »

...Samson and Delilah (Paramount...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Box Office | 3/20/1950 | See Source »

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