Word: spencers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lymphatically portrayed by Jean Simmons. All the dear child has in her head is the idea that she, too, can be a famous actress. She has told mother (excellently played by Teresa Wright) all about her ambition, but mother does not dare to tell father-a role in which Spencer Tracy does his most satisfying work of recent years...
Eastward Ho! Allen's first move was to merge C.F. & I. with another of his interests. Wickwire Spencer Steel Co. of Buffalo. That gave the company two blast furnaces in the East plus fabricating equipment in New England. More important, C.F. & I. also got Wickwire's Plant Superintendent Alwin Franz, a crack operating man who started in the steel business as an open-hearth pitman and is now C.F. & I.'s president...
...actress of the title is a young girl of the early 1900's who wants to go on the stage--against, of course, her father's wishes. Miss Gordon's successful career in the theatre testifies to which will prevailed. As the father, Spencer Tracy plays himself more often, and probably more effectively, than he does the domineering, soft-hearted codger the play requires. Jean Simmons, in the title role, experiments with a unique accent: partly British, partly what she has been told was authentic for Wollaston, Mass...
...appeared to be a pretty girl, is made to look careworn and greying as the mother. But an even greater error in judgment than this is the showing of the film on the new Panoramic screen. Since this greatly magnifies the picture, quick movements flicker and blur. Besides this, Spencer Tracy is now not only in front of the viewer but on each side as well. It seems a misuse of technology somehow...
Playwright Peterson has captured Spencer's seventeen-ness admirably, and High-School Senior Louis Gossett plays him well. There is a fresh, humorous smack to the writing-that sense of proportion so vital in dealing with a character who lacks one. But only his humor and his hero are Playwright Peterson's own; they function inside a framework, indeed a virtual cage of cliches. Where Spencer is typical but real, his experiences are merely trite, and sometimes clumsy and protracted. What makes Take a Giant Step uncommon in terms of Negro life-its middle-class outlook-is precisely...