Word: saroyan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Gemini. An earthy Italo-American family comedy that the early William Saroyan might have enjoyed or, for that matter, written...
When an ethereal beauty named Julie Haydon played the role of a prostitute in Saroyan's The Time of Your Life, most of the critics lambasted the producer for a casting blooper. Critic John Mason Brown noted that his colleagues seemed singularly omniscient in knowing precisely how a prostitute should look. The luminous and lovely Liv Ullmann is no one's image of a prostitute either. But Anna Christie is such a cheap, cosmetic come-on of a drama as to vie with any streetwalker...
...artfully accomplished cast, Anne DeSalvo probably rates a golden pasta award as a diet-conscious Italian widow with the table manners of a seagull when it comes to other people's plates. Gemini is the kind of play the early William Saroyan might have enjoyed or, for that matter, written...
...made his Broadway debut in The Velvet Lady, quickly followed by the Ziegfeld Follies of 1919, starring Will Rogers and Fannie Brice. Eventually turning to producing, Dowling in 1937 won acclaim for Shakespeare's Richard II, with Maurice Evans and Margaret Webster. After his prizewinning production of William Saroyan's The Time of Your Life in 1939, Dowling went on to his greatest triumph. In 1945, he turned down a surefire commercial play to take a chance with an unknown playwright, Tennessee Williams. The Glass Menagerie, which Dowling coproduced, co-directed, narrated and acted in with Laurette Taylor, made...
...Hold it. Saroyan's Armenians are no more sentimentalized than the Jews of Sholem Aleichem, the English of Charles Dickens, the Scots of Robert Burns, the Irish of Sean O'Casey or the Americans of Mark Twain. Read My Name Is Aram again, please...