Word: webbe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cousin Rachel (20th Century-Fox), co-starring Newcomer Richard Burton and Olivia de Havilland, who is hopeful of a third best-actress Oscar (previous awards: 1946, 1949). The studio's dark horse: Stars and Stripes Forever, with Clifton Webb playing the late John Philip Sous'a (see below...
Decked out in beard and spectacles, Clifton Webb plays Sousa as a wry, rather pixyish personality. But the role gives ex-Dancer Webb an opportunity to do the two-step, which was introduced in 1890 to the strains of Sousa's Washington Post march. Stars and Stripes Forever hits a few sour notes in its long-winded dialogue stretches, but when it strikes up the band and plays the stuffing out of such rousing Sousa marches as Semper Fidelis and the title tune, it is a spirited show...
Margaret Sullavan, though uneven, brings far more integrity to the playing of Hester Collyer than Rattigan does to the part. The expert Alan Webb is floored as the husband; as the playboy, James Hanley comes off much better in the play's best role. As somebody who would love and cherish Hester if he could, he perhaps reflects something in Rattigan himself. Rattigan seems not so much unwilling to do right by his material as incapable...
There is a strange television affinity between crime shows and tobacco. Tracy's good friend, Ralph Bellamy, stars in Man Against Crime for Camel cigarettes; The Adventures of Ellery Queen (starring Lee Bowman) touts Phillies cigars; Dragnet (with Jack Webb) hawks Fatimas, and The Plainclothesman (Ken Lynch) works for Edgeworth tobacco. Like many things about TV, this fact puzzles Tracy: "I guess there must be some tie-up between smoking and tension...
...Clifton Webb delegate to the U.N. General Assembly from New Zealand, will give an informal talk in the Harkness Common Meeting Room of the Graduate Center at 8 p.m. tonight. Since this is United Nations Week, Webb will speak on his experience working with the General Assembly. Besides his U.N. work, Mr. Webb is Minister for External Affairs and Attorney General of New Zealand. The talk, sponsored by the Harvard Law School, is open to the public...