Word: playwrighting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Second String (adapted by Lucienne Hill from a novel of Colette) portrays the home life of an egocentric French playwright-philanderer who is almost never at home. Despite his having a secretary-mistress as well as a wife on the premises, he just dashes demandingly in and out. When mistress and wife are not waiting on him, they are waiting for him, while a neglected teen-age son keeps hoping for more from papa than a quick pat on the back, and a sophisticated elderly actress drops by to deliver a few verbal lefts to the chin. In time...
...Fugitive Kind. The screen version of Playwright Tennessee Williams' Orpheus Descending has a kind of nauseating beauty, luridly reworking the myth of Orpheus in a dirty little town in Mississippi. With Marlon Brando, Anna Magnani, Joanne Woodward, Victor Tory...
Toys in the Attic. Playwright Lillian Hellman's taut, powerful drama about a weak ne'er-do-well's sudden acquisition of wealth and the anguish this brings to his wife and sisters. Jason Robards Jr. heads a fine cast...
...Tenth Man. Playwright Paddy Chayefsky, in his best work to date, cures two young Jewish people's mental illness with ancient rites, setting off an explosion of faith in a synagogue full of unbelievers...
...Miracle Worker. With more feeling than art Playwright William Gibson draws an outline of the early childhood of Deaf-Mute Helen Keller, leaves it to be filled by the uncompromisingly excellent acting of Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke...