Word: widmark
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that moment the Cleveland company became students in what has been called the George Abbott University, an institution whose graduates include Gene Kelly, Shirley MacLaine, Kirk Douglas, Gene Tierney, Jose Ferrer, Paul Muni, Van Johnson, Shirley Booth, Eddie Albert, Nancy Walker, Garson Kanin, Richard Widmark, Arlene Francis, Hal Prince...
Actually, he is not as curmudgeonly as this byplay suggests. In Connecticut, Roth and Bloom regularly see such neighboring friends as Arthur Miller, Richard Widmark and William Styron; London, her turf, involves plenty of evenings with theater and literary people, including Harold Pinter and Lady Antonia Fraser...
...corruption and the lost paradise of Los Angeles. The result is a flat, dumbly brutal movie, full of overplotted complexity and empty of all emotional resonance, except that provided by the presence of Jane Greer (the original film's dark lady, here doing a supporting role) and Richard Widmark, who stalked many a stylish mean street in better movie days. Their participation is both a pleasure and a curse. Simply by lending their veteran gifts to this retread, they remind us that progress is not Holly wood's most important product...
...Silver Streak, Stir Crazy) with Gilda Radner, 35, (Saturday Night Live) in a murder-mystery romance? Hanky Panky, that's what. In the film, due out next summer, Wilder witnesses a murder. He and Radner then hit the road for clues to the crime, with Freelance Villain Richard Widmark, 66, in hot pursuit. Along for the chase are the police, who-you guessed it-think Wilder is the murderer. Love blossoms between the two co-stars during the film, but not, it seems, during a ride aboard a horse-drawn victoria in New York's Central Park. Says...
...Weather and Cabin in the Sky, and otherwise gave her bit roles so small that they could be excised easily when the movies played in the South. It was not until 1969 that she played a major character in a major movie, the madam of a whorehouse and Richard Widmark's lover in Death of a Gunfighter. But by then, she says, "I didn't care. It was too little, too late...