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...story eminently suited to any pair with a theatrical flair, as Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne showed when they caroused through the play on Broadway in 1940. For this film version of Shrew, the Burtons-who only recently finished shrewing their way through the movie version of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?-are being put through their paces by Franco Zeffirelli, the irreverent Italian director who once did a modern-dress Hamlet in which the Dane intoned: "To be or not to be, what the hell!" Zeffirelli's notion is that Shrew is a walloping good story...
Works of this genre, known to the trade as "costume plays," were common currency before the war, and even immediately after. (Ingrid Bergman played Joan of Lorraine in the late forties.) Preston is quite right in his statement that, "It's the kind of thing Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne used to do," but I wonder if it's fair to remember that magnificent team for the cheapest of their quasi-historical vehicles. In better moments they could be found performing the works of Sherwood, Coward, Molnar, and Shaw...
HALLMARK HALL OF FAME (NBC, 8:30-10 p.m.). The Magnificent Yankee, an award-winning adaptation of the Broadway play about the life of Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes and his wife Fanny. With Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne. Rerun...
Calling the Shots. Over the years Schaefer's efforts have garnered some 17 Emmy awards for him and his actors. As a result, a parade of stars from Mary Martin to Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, who ordinarily shun TV, have allowed themselves to be shrunk down to 21 inches simply because they knew Schaefer would be calling the shots. Said doughty Trevor Howard after taping Eagle in a Cage: "I'd play Mickey Mouse for him. I trust him. He is one of the few directors for whom I would work script unseen." Emmy Winner Julie Harris...
Among the guests were Painters Willem deKooning and Ben Shahn, Novelist Katherine Anne Porter, Poetess Marianne Moore, Architects Edward Durell Stone and Walter Gropius, Photographer Edward Steichen, Inventor Buckminster Fuller, Actors Alfred Lunt and Fredric March. Also invited but conspicuously absent was Playwright Arthur Miller, who, like Poet Robert Lowell on a similar occasion last June, sent his regrets, and for good measure sent Lyndon Johnson a nasty little note condemning U.S. policy in Viet...