Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sister," the old man told Nurse Gwendoline Howell, "you're trying to keep me alive as an old curiosity, but I'm done, I'm finished, I'm going to die." Before the next dawn, George Bernard Shaw had lapsed into final unconsciousness. A little over 24 hours later, the 94-year-old philosopher, playwright, professional pixie and self-styled "Bishop of Everywhere" was dead...
...songs (e.g., I've Got the World on a String, It's Been a Long, Long Time, Taking a Chance on Love), enlist June Haver and Gloria De Haven, who perform proficiently as a sister team, and radio's Tenor-Comic Dennis Day, whose shrewd timing as an arrested adolescent makes him the movie's most valuable player. In the role of Day's publishing partner, William Lundigan labors unrewardingly with most of the plot chores...
...London one day, Charley does visit the recommended widow, and as she opens the door he faints at her feet. Widow Nancy, it turns out, is Rose's half-sister and living image; but Charley, still living in the past, decides it must be Rose playing a malicious game. In time, Nancy breaks the grip of his memory, and Charley learns that she, too, can be the rose of his heart...
...dull job in a warehouse and with his nagging mother, who keeps him at the job while he'd like to be off on adventures. AT the end of the picture he is faced with the prospect of continued frustration in order to support his mother and crippled sister, or the alternative of leaving them for a more interesting life. Hollywood's best traditions would require the male to stick by his loved ones in their hour of need. Kennedy scrams. This is one of several breaks with the routine movie plot which "The Green Menagerie" makes, and which makes...
Kennedy's sister is a shy girl, crippled and introverted. It is she who keeps the glass menagerie, a little collection of glass animals, an escape from her cloistered existence. This is a difficult role and Jane Wyman acts it just about perfectly. Apparently the glass figurines also serve as Williams' symbol of the fictional escape all the characters cherish...