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Affairs of State combines a small cast and a single gag with intermittent sprinklings of comedy, farce, and epigrams. June Havoc carries off very well the lead role, created by Celeste Holm. She and Shepperd Strudwick alone manage to give variety to their parts without sacrificing consistency...

Author: By Andrew E. Norman, | Title: Affairs of State | 3/12/1952 | See Source »

Three Husbands (United Artists] stencils itself hopefully on 1949's successful A Letter to Three Wives. Based on a story by Novelist Vera Caspary, who worked on the plot for Three Wives, the picture gives three men (Howard da Silva, Shepperd Strudwick, Robert Karnes) reason to suspect their wives (Eve Arden, Ruth Warrick, Vanessa Brown) of infidelity, then sits back to watch them squirm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Dec. 11, 1950 | 12/11/1950 | See Source »

...what they are looking at is a very expensive movie set, Bergman's passionate fidelity to her part saves the day. Fine supporting actors play the Dauphin (Jose Ferrer), the Count of Luxembourg (J. Carrol Naish), the Bishop of Beauvais (Francis L. Sullivan) and Joan's bailiff (Shepperd Strudwick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 15, 1948 | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

Playwright Hart has tried manfully to grapple with these problems. He has filled things out by carefully documenting his situation-by tracing the causes of the divorce, dramatizing the refusal of either parent to hand Chris (Richard Tyler) over to the other, having both parents (Martha Sleeper, Shepperd Strudwick) appeal to the boy. (In the end he chooses his father.) And Playwright Hart has gone inside Chris's mind by bodying forth the conflicting fantasies that float through it-Chris reuniting his parents by killing himself just after being decorated by President Truman; Chris, a great man of affairs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Dec. 9, 1946 | 12/9/1946 | See Source »

Hart has written a play of divorce, the crisis of which centers around the decision of the child, Christopher Blake, as to whether he will choose to live with his mother or with his father. The scenes between the mother and the father, played by Martha Sleeper and Shepperd Strudwick, and between the boy and each of his parents are very effective. All three of the principals are excellent, particularly the boy, Richard Tyler, who may be remembered as the urchin who boxed with Ingrid Bergman in "The Bells of St. Mary's," and Hart has fashioned for them some...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 11/14/1946 | See Source »

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