Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Playwright Paddy Chayefsky scatters such sidewalk epiphanies with a liberal hand through this almost too clever script, which he adapted from his own television play. Many of his coins go down the drain and others are too bright and shiny for belief; but at his best this writer, who was born and raised in a Jewish-Italian part of The Bronx, can find the vernacular truth and beauty in ordinary lives and feelings. And he can say things about his people that he could never get away with if he were not a member of the family...
...scenery and costumes by William and Jean Eckart were authentic when they must be, fantastic whenever possible. The entire production had all the markings of Adler-Ross; George Abbett's flawless timing and pacc, a banjo in the orchestra, and a score of pearls dangling over a unique script. Damn Yankees, it seems safe enough to wager, will be around when the hurly burly's done, when the Series is lost...
...first thing Guinness discards is his stock in trade: the little man with a big idea. In this script he is a big man-a millionaire, in fact-with a little idea: to take his 20-year-old son (Vernon Gray) on a trip to Paris and see if there's life in the young sprout yet. Little does he realize that the idea for the trip was really planted by the son, who wants for his part to see if there's life in the old stalk yet. Soon they meet a pretty midinette (Odile Versois)-just...
...laughs come as thick as tarts in Montmartre-the audience sees them coming and begins to grin-but the script (by Robert Buckner) mereiy adjusts its monocle, stares, bows ever so sligntiy, and declines to pick them up. Guinness obviously does not care so much if the audience gets the joke; he wants it to see the humor of his situations...
...working to support his family, and living at home. Another patient, who at first could not remember lines for more than a few minutes, eventually memorized his part letter-perfect, and his memory for other matters improved. A third, who insisted he could not see his script or even a cue card, was won around to the point where first he read fluently, then acted his part freely...