Word: sullavan
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...Turtle, has provided Broadway's smallest cast with Broadway's plushiest dressing rooms. Each of the three performers at the Morosco has a whole floor backstage. The three suites, which cost around $30,000, contain a dressing room, sitting room, kitchenette with refrigerator, bathroom without bath. Margaret Sullavan's first floor (see cut) is all feminine satin; Elliott Nugent's second floor, all masculine mahogany; Audrey Christie's third floor, all pink& blue...
...smallest cast and one of its gayest evenings. Playwright van Druten (There's Always Juliet, Old Acquaintance) has not only written a winning light comedy around just three people, but has even managed to suggest that three's a crowd. For youthful Actress Sally Middleton (Margaret Sullavan) and Sergeant Bill Page (Elliott Nugent) two is company, and good comedy at that...
...production matches the play. Thirty-two-year-old Actress Sullavan, back on Broadway after six years in Hollywood, plays with skill, spirit and amazing youthfulness. Actor Nugent-beside whose naturalness a man in shirt sleeves with his feet on the desk seems posed-does a perfect job. And Actress Christie, as the trollop who gives Bill the goby, gives the play just the right touch of tabasco...
...nurses in Cry Havoc are a quiet, middle-aged captain (Fay Bainter), a lieutenant (Margaret Sullavan) who, though fever-ridden, refuses to quit, a veteran volunteer (Marsha Hunt), and a rather luscious, well-intentioned lot of newcomers whose chief qualifications for the job are their good intentions and a dabbler's acquaintance with first aid. Short of medicine, food, sleep and experience, they do what they can when the Japanese bomb their hospital, strafe their open wards...
...personal drama is supplied by an English girl who is caught underground among corpses, loses her mind; by a sensitive socialite (Ella Raines) who is machine-gunned while she is taking a swim; and by a tough, intransigeant jill-of-all-trades (Ann Sothern) who tries to steal Lieut. Sullavan's man until she learns that they are secretly married. At one badly taken point Joan Blondell, as an easygoing stripteaser, shows her roommates how she used...