Word: holmes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gramercy Ghost (by John Cecil Holm; produced by Roger Clark in association with Evans M. Frankel) is a pale little fantasy trying hard to be a farce. In inheriting a house in Manhattan's historic Gramercy Park, a young lady (agreeably played by Winston Churchill's daughter Sarah) also acquires the ghost of a Revolutionary War soldier. She already has two living beaux, but the ghost falls in love with her, too; since only she can see and hear him, she is first thought to be drunk and then demented...
Comedy Hour (Sun. 8 p.m., NBC). Tony Martin, Fred Allen, Celeste Holm...
Plot requirements for the Holm type of play are simple. The theme is a love affair. In the first act the characters are presented, their differences explained; the second act produces their differences explained; the second act produces the favorites, the people the audience would like to see united; in the third act all complications are ironed out, the ends tied, and the lovers joined. Usually in this type of play there is a humorous twist carefully inserted, and in this case the ghost of a Revolutionary War soldier is the gimmick. Under his watchful...
Sarah Churchill, Winston's daughter, appearing in her first important American role, is suitably charming as the girl who inherits the ghost. She is confused, excited, and buoyant at precisely the right moments, handling the Holm dialogue with a Hepburn-like air which is sophisticated and smooth...
...Holm and director Reginald Denham fulfill another important requirement of the Commercial Success by careful handling of the supporting cast, the character actors. There are six in all, a policeman, a maid, two ambulance drivers, and two ethereal comrades of the ghost, and their scenes are tapped for all possible comedy angles, including the usual topical gags...