Word: wirts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...competent script and sharp direction make a pleasant political comedy out of Novelist Wirt Williams' variation on the American dream: a Louisiana doxy marries a gubernatorial candidate she meets on the job, and winds up first lady of the state...
...cute idea-maybe too cute. But the screenplay, worked up by Arthur Sheek-man and William Driskill from a novel (Ada Dallas) by Wirt Williams, develops it into a pleasant political comedy, and Daniel (Butterfield 8) Mann directs the show with tact and skill. He makes the most of Martin's charm, the least of Hayward's flim-flamboyance. And in Ralph Meeker he viciously personifies the police power in a native Fascist regime. But it is Actor White-a British trouper usually cast as a potty colonel, a flaccid vicar, or a dear old rose fiend...