Word: shumlin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Herman Shumlin, who produced and directed the play, directed the picture. He knew he had a good thing in his stage cast, moved most of the principals from footlights to Kleig lights...
...Great Big Doorstep (adapted by Frances Goodrich & Albert Hackett from the novel by E. P. O'Donnell; produced by Herman Shumlin) is a folk comedy about a ramshackle family of Cajuns in lower Louisiana. Its pleasant sliver of plot concerns their fishing a handsome doorstep out of the Mississippi and then trying to get a house to go with...
...Herman Shumlin, producer of "The Great Big Doorstep," is slated to join the Army as soon as his new show opens on Broadway. He might as well save wear and tear on the induction center and enlist right now; his show's chances of staying in New York any longer than he will are about as slim as the thread he's based his story...
...Crochet daughters, and Jack Manning at the son, are effective and almost believable. But the play as a whole is a loss; it tries hard to be slight and unpretentious, and succeeds so well that for all practical purposes it might just as well never be seen. Mr. Shumlin will like the Army...
...Little Foxes (Samuel Goldwyn; RKO Radio) is a blue-ribbon adaptation of Playwright Lillian Hellman's and Producer Herman Shumlin's bitter Broadway drama of a rapacious Southern family hell-bent for power and money at the turn of the century. If it consists of too much photographed talk, too little movement, that is Hollywood's error for trying to film stage plays instead of designing stories for the camera's rangier talents...