Word: playwrighting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Playwright Arthur Miller, husband of Cinemorsel Marilyn (Some Like It Hot) Monroe, wished aloud that the public would pay more attention to her lines and less to her curves. Said he: "She would not have lasted so long except for her genuine acting ability." As a case in point, he referred to Marilyn's forthcoming stardom in a Nevada-made movie titled The Misfit, written especially for her by Playwright Miller. "When this film is finished, everyone will recognize my wife's ability...
...hooted, but its star, tempestuous Actress Sarah Churchill, 45, who had not trod the West End boards for twelve years, got a good hand. The play sounded as if it had been slapped together in six weeks on a borrowed typewriter (it was) by a would-be actress turned playwright (Gloria Russell, 22) to settle -the earth-shaking matter of what happens when a gynecologist impregnates his wife and his mistress at roughly the same time. The best notice for Sarah, who played the philanderer's wife, came from the London Daily Express, which found it "good...
...much of the rest of the show, adapted by Playwright Harry Kurnitz from his Broadway farce (TIME, Nov. 3, 1958), is unfortunately not very funny. For one thing, when Actor Brynner sets out to tickle the funnybone, he practically breaks the spectator's arm. For another, Kurnitz' shock gags require the physical presence of the actors for their effect. But in the film version the actors are not actually there, the shock often fails to come through, the laughs often fail to come off. Still, there are a few bits of memorably daffy backchat (Trustee...
...kind of tribute from one who greatly admired Poet Millay's work without knowing the author, A Lovely Light, helpfully directed by Actress Stickney's playwright husband Howard Lindsay, is also a pleasant theater piece. Mingling pert comment and factual color from the letters with the lyrical stresses, responses and longings of the poems, Actress Stickney nicely balances the mockingbird and the nightingale, the humorous down-to-earth snorts and the impassioned cries of a woman responding to nature, or in love, or not in love...
Five Finger Exercise. An underground fire, fed by the mutual antagonisms in a pointedly average family, finally breaks out on the surface and nearly kills a young tutor. A deft effort by British Playwright Peter Shaffer...