Word: wynter
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...hero (Richard Egan), a Southerner who has "lapsed" to New York, is sent back on legal business to his home town, Pompey's Head. On the way, he limbers up his lip for both the accent and the girl (Dana Wynter) he left behind him. The accent Actor Egan never does quite come to isolate, but the girl he gets alone in a hotel room on his first day in town...
...Connecticut newspaper and remained true to his socialite wife Jane. If it had not been for the war, lovely, English Valerie Russell would never have become a Red Cross girl, and fallen in love with Brad while still the tacit fiancee of slim, tight-lipped John Wynter. What Brad and Val do to John and Jane and each other in this story of hand-holding across the seas in wartime makes for a slack tale slickly told...
...businesslike interlude with a party girl. Instead he meets Val, the grave-eyed brunette daughter of an invalided British brigadier, fully Jane's social opposite number and twice as good-looking. They fall immediately and desperately in love, and exchange guilty confidences about his wife and her friend Wynter, a commando officer in North Africa. But despite prolonged emotional twitching and teasing, Author Shapiro keeps his lovers' mental fig leaves so firmly in place that they sin only in their minds. To a love affair which proves to be as innocuous as Pablum, Author Shapiro adds some government...
...successful simply because Mr. Shiffrin gets what he is after: a play which bases its humor almost entirely on the more ludicrous aspects of seduction. Late in the first act, Dr. Nicholas Marsh, a dying neurologist played by Vincent Price, is approached by Susan Gillespie, played by Dana Wynter. Black-Eyed Susan, as she is later called, has a strange request: in three years her husband has failed to present her with a child. She wants the doctor to act in loco parentis...
Much of the rest of the play is devoted to Miss Wynter's attempts to seduce the doctor. It is a chess-game second act which sees her carrying the attack, leading with her queenly figure, lounging on the couch, or gently caressing his knee while he tries, unsuccessfully to ward off her advances. Vincent Price, of course, is merely a pawn, and he realizes it. His defeat is inevitable. In a stunning move the pawn is rooked, and the two disappear into a bedroom for what should logically be the end of the game...