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...moving Three Sisters. The people it treats of are fibreless, end-stopped artistic folk. Self-pitying, middle-aged Actress Irina (Lynn Fontanne) shrugs, screams, clutches tight the second-rate novelist, Trigorin (Alfred Lunt). Irina's son Constantine (Richard Whorf) writes advanced plays, loves the ingenuous, stage-struck Nina (Uta Hagen), who in turn idolizes Trigorin. Nina is the sea gull- the fluttering bird whom Trigorin ruins out of thoughtless pleasure, condemning her to the life of a third-rate actress, driving Constantine to suicide...
There are several other important characters, and all are caught in the same web of failure and unrequited love. All are also well acted. The illustrious team play the actress and author, showing their usual excellence. Richard Whorf and Uta Hagen are good in the other two leading roles, but perhaps the young man is rendered too grufily...