Word: screens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Come Back, Little Sheba. William Inge's Broadway hit about two mismated people, faithfully transferred to the screen; with Burt Lancaster, Shirley Booth (TIME...
...theatricalism of Maurice Evans as a simpering Caesar to Mature's deadpanning. As the lion-taming hero, TV Actor Alan Young appears imbecilic rather than amiable. Jean Simmons makes a beguiling Lavinia, while Robert Newton tears ferociously into the role of the Christian warrior, Ferrovius. But this screen adaptation of a Shavian classic succeeds mostly in throwing G.B.S. to the lions...
...Previous screen versions of Shaw plays, all filmed in England by Producer Gabriel Pascal: Pygmalion (1938), Major Barbara (1941), Caesar and Cleopatra...
Come Back, Little Sheba (Hal Wallis; Paramount). William Inge's Broadway hit about two mismated people, faithfully transferred to the screen; with Burt Lancaster, Shirley Booth (TIME...
...Arthur Rank; Universal-International), bringing Oscar Wilde's classic 1895 comedy of manners to the screen for the first time, is a highly stylized, dryly amusing production. The British-made film is faithful to Wilde's play, which is a triumph of triviality: Playboy Jack Worthing (Michael Redgrave) loves Gwendolen Fairfax (Joan Greenwood), whose cousin, Algernon Moncrieff (Michael Denison), loves Jack's ward, Cecily Cardew (Dorothy Tutin). But because of Jack's ignoble habit of representing himself as his imaginary brother Earnest and Algy's adoption of Earnest's name and wicked reputation...