Word: spinsterish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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OGUNQUIT, ME., Playhouse. A spinsterish dental nurse turns bewitching temptress in Abe Burrows' Cactus Flower...
...really believes that something can be done about it -practically a political heresy in cynical New York City. Chipper and resilient at 45, even if his fair hair has greyed a bit along with his image, Lindsay is often accused of being a cross between Don Quixote and a spinsterish schoolmarm because of his sometimes rigid righteousness and such of his fancies as "the Athenian idealization of public service." Still, for all his high phrases and sometimes frenetic activity, Lindsay has made some significant strides in his effort to reorganize and govern the nation's least governable city...
CACTUS FLOWER. Barry Nelson as a playboy dentist who must persuade his spinsterish nurse (Lauren Bacall) to fill in as his "wife" because his mistress (Brenda Vaccaro) won't agree to marry him until she meets his supposed spouse. Daft farce, deftly directed by Abe Burrows...
CACTUS FLOWER. A playboy dentist (Barry Nelson) who has drilled himself into a trap of lies persuades his spinsterish nurse (Lauren Bacall) to fill in as his "wife" because his mistress (Brenda Vaccaro) won't agree to marry him until she meets his supposed spouse. Abe Burrows directs this daft farce with a deft touch...
CACTUS FLOWER. Adapter-Director Abe Burrows gives a fast spin to a French sex farce that sets a reluctantly spinsterish nurse, a determined roué of a dentist, and his beatnik mistress in a romantic whirl. Lauren Bacall is appropriately prickly as a late-blooming lovely...