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FRED GOLDBERGER The Bronx...
...Catered Affair (MGM) is another Bronx cheer, more affectionate than derisive, for the marital problems of the lower middle class. Like the Oscar-winning Marty (TIME, April 18, 1955), the film was originally a TV play by Paddy Chayefsky, the troubadour of the tenements, and it has much the same shirtsleeved intimacy and gamy humor...
...sudden? Is she in trouble?"). Then the parents meet their prospective in-laws, who relate, down to the last insufferable penny, how many thousands they spent in properly marrying off their own daughters. Bette Davis digs in her heels, insists that Debbie get a marriage as splendid as The Bronx can afford. Father Borgnine, a taxi driver, seeing the savings of 15 years vanish in an orgy of limousines, caviar and wedding receptions, roars like a wounded bull elephant. Debbie's best friend .blubbers her tragedy-with her husband unemployed, she cannot afford the matron of honor...
Despite the skimpiness of plot, Adapter Gore Vidal has kept Chayefsky's sharply observed vignettes of Bronx life. Oscar-winning Actor Borgnine, probably the most resourceful character man in films, has no difficulty appearing older than Bette Davis (actually he is 39; she is 48), and his anguish as the hard-earned dollars are squandered is so real it hurts. The Bronx locutions are sometimes too much for Actress Davis, but, as always, she has power to spare in her performance. Barry Fitzgerald, as a crotchety uncle, hams it up and seems to be looking expectantly in each scene...
Stanley Kubrick, who looks (according to one Hollywood observer) like "an undernourished Marlon Brando," is the son of a Bronx physician. At 13 he began "fooling around" with his father's Graflex. At 16 he took some pictures of his English teacher reading Hamlet and sold them to Look Magazine. At 17 he quit college for a full-time job as a Look staff photographer, and at 21 he made his first film: a 15-minute study of a boxer on the day of a fight. It cost $3,900, sold...