Word: wheelchairs
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...ugly even for character parts. His co-star was a round-eyed windup doll from Iowa whose debut had been a disaster. The director, an impoverished movie critic, made up the script as he went along, and shot much of the film by pushing his photographer around in a wheelchair, screaming instructions at the players...
...family have summered for many years, Christina Olson was severely crippled by polio in childhood. Nonetheless, she supported herself for most of her life as a seamstress, earned a local reputation as a fine cook. She was so fiercely independent that she disdained crutches, declined offers of a wheelchair from the local March of Dimes, preferred instead to hitch herself about the house on a conventional chair...
Little Josephine (Joe) Egg sags in a wheelchair, wets herself, whimpers a little, rarely opens her eyes, and has periodic fits. There are no jokes made about any of that. But the child's absence is her presence; an inert object, she is the playwright's catalytic agent for fusing, exploring and exploding the relationships and attitudes of the people around her. That is where the chemistry of laughter begins...
...legendary loyalty to his old vaudeville cronies, his brothers,- distant kin, in-laws of distant kin, acquaintances, agents and NBC ("30 unbroken years, and I've enjoyed every dollar of the relationship"). His wardrobe girl is an invalid who works from a wheelchair. He has seen to it that his old sidekick, Jerry Colonna, semipar-alyzed by a stroke, gets plenty of work...
...wants a divorce in order to "unite my destiny with that of a woman who together with devotion to her husband will also bring into this household youth, and may I say, a little BUUU-TEEE!" Not beauty but a final stroke awaits the captain. Propped in a wheelchair, jaw sagging, tongue palsied, eyes of stone, he must hear out his wife as she reviles him with reptilian glee. With a last convulsive effort he sits up, as if in his coffin, and spits at her, full in the face. It is Strindberg's riposte...