Word: mccracken
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...MARIAN MCCRACKEN Baltimore...
...television got a new playwright when Gertrude Lawrence starred in a lavish Theatre Guild treatment of Bernard Shaw's Great Catherine. The Guild and NBC spared no kopeks to give the telecast an opulent, St. Petersburg flavor. Czarina Lawrence had a star-emblazoned court (David Wayne, Joan McCracken, Erik Rhodes, Micheal MacLiammóir), required six sets in NBC's big, new Studio 8G (TIME, May 3). Actress Lawrence could have claimed to be making, as well as re-creating history: ten years ago, in a telecast of Susan and God, she was the first big star...
Instead of rushing from the darkness that fills the Exeter while "Nickleby" is on, wait around and see the other feature. "Quiet Weekend" was filmed over two years ago from the successful London play by Ester McCracken and has a east that is probably unknown in this country, even in Boston. The acting and the direction are so smooth and appropriate to the setting and story that they can go unnoticed as such. However, the superb comedy antics of Frank Cellier as the befuddled lover-fisherman, and that of Edward Rigby as the village tosspot, deserve singling out for special...
...people at the party also owed plenty to the birthday girl. For Choreographer Agnes de Mille and for Dick Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein, she had set off a firecracker-string of Broadway successes. She had helped boost many of her onetime players (notably Celeste Holm, Joan McCracken, Bambi Linn, Mary Hatcher, Howard Da Silva, Pamela Britton, Alfred Drake) toward Broadway or Hollywood fame. And to her happy angels (among them: Producers Max Gordon and Lee Shubert, Playwright S. N. Behrman) she had paid...
...HERBERT MCCRACKEN President, Scholastic Sports Institute New York City...