Word: sheridan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with a famished look and faintly bloodshot eyes. Since Christmas night, not a new show-and only one revival, Porgy and Bess-had really managed to click on Broadway. There had been 16 shows in all, half of them by well-known playwrights-Clifford Odets, Charles MacArthur, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, John van Druten, Samson Raphaelson, Henrik Ibsen, Ben Hecht; and last week there was Marc Connelly. But this week Connelly had joined the rest: his Flowers of Virtue withered after four performances...
Kings Row (Betty Field, Robert Cummings, Ronald Reagan, Ann Sheridan; TIME...
...brethren, let it be known that, from this time henceforth, the lap of John Harvard be considered sacred. Let not the shiny silk of Hayward, Woodworth or Sheridan meet with it, and guard it likewise from the defiling touch of Cambers and his cronies. It is the lap we have fought for, gentlemen--the lap of John. And we have...
...evil in Kings Row. Dr. Henry Gordon (Charles Coburn), surgeon and sadistic moralist, unnecessarily amputates both legs of a likable good-time-Charlie (Ronald Reagan). Denounced by his distraught daughter (Nancy Coleman), he offers her a choice of silence or confinement in the insane asylum. Brave Randy Monaghan (Ann Sheridan), shanty Irish and desirable, marries her legless sweetheart and cables Parris to come home. The young medico returns, full of his new knowledge, to find that the ills of Kings Row are still beyond his scope...
...rugged, shocking sequences of Kings Row are an actor's field day, and the cast makes the most of them. Slow-burning, sparrow-voiced Betty Field plays Cassandra for keeps. But the surprise of Kings Row is beauteous, lazy Ann Sheridan, who manages her shanty Irish role with credible facility. Somebody (probably Mr. Wood) has very nearly de-oomphed...