Word: shumlin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quarreled with almost every producer, director and playwright who has crossed her path in recent years. Oddly, the bitterest feuds have involved her best plays. She does not speak to The Little Foxes' Producer-Director Herman Shumlin and Playwright Lillian Hellman (both leftists whose rows with Tallulah were political as well as professional). She does not speak to The Skin of Our Teeth's Producer Michael Myerberg and Director Elia Kazan. Shumlin will not even discuss her. Billy Rose, who starred her in Clifford Odets' Clash By Night, is more reticent about Tallulah than...
...party and she would take offense." A onetime secretary-companion notes: "She's like a child . . . She broods all night. She'd keep me up hour after hour going over everything that'd been said, worrying about what she'd said and done." Herman Shumlin once said: "Like all important people, she is always filled with fear-the gnawing, consuming fear that she may not be quite good enough...
Married. Herman Shumlin, 48, bald, bespectacled, parlor-pink Broadway producer (Watch on the Rhine, The Male Animal); and Carmen England, 33, onetime screen bit player; he for the second time, she for the third; in Santa Monica...
...Congress for refusing to turn over records to the House Un-American Activities Committee (TIME, July 7). The whacks: for Chairman Dr. Edward Barsky: six months in jail and $500 fine; for Novelist Howard Fast and nine others: three months in jail and $500 fines; for Theatrical Producer Herman Shumlin, Leverett Gleason (publisher of comic books) and three others: $500 fines and suspended three-month jail terms. The eleven sentenced to jail appealed and were freed on bail...
...Committee were convicted of contempt of Congress for refusing to turn over their books to the committee. Among the reluctant board members: Chairman Edward K. Barsky, a doctor with the Loyalists in the Spanish Civil War; Communist-line Howard (Citizen Tom Paine) Fast; Theatrical Producer Herman (The Searching Wind) Shumlin...