Word: schildkraut
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...honor roll for acting was almost tiresomely long: beyond established names like Bert Lahr, Ruth Gordon, Rex Harrison, Joseph Schildkraut, Shirley Booth, there were young or foreign ones like Julie Andrews, Andy Griffith, Earle Hyman, Siobhan McKenna. It was the season when, thanks to Comedienne Nancy Walker, Noel Coward's generation-old Fallen Angels was restored to life without having previously ever lived, when Orson Welles played King Lear in a wheelchair, and when Susan Strasberg, in the title role of Anne Frank, was raised to stardom...
...portraying the group life and the general problem, in such special circumstances, of two families living under one roof. Neither in the sudden moments of midnight terror nor in the explosions of cramped boardinghouse farce is there any prettifying. If Anne's father (beautifully played by Joseph Schildkraut) is disciplined and quiet, her mother can be excitable; Dussel the dentist is fussy, Mr. Van Daan greedy. Under Garson Kanin's skillful direction, there is no more of an attempt at heartbreaking gaiety than at lurid gloom; there is chiefly a day-by-day liveliness, a gradual learning...
Cameo Theater (Sun. 10 p.m., NBC). Joseph Schildkraut in The Man from the South...
Joseph Jacob Schildkraut of Brooklyn and Adams, Chemistry; Harry Kane Schwartz of Philadelphia and Dunster, Government; Stephen Jay Sigler of Brooklyn and Eliot, Bio-chemistry; and John Bruder Winston of New York City and Dunster, Social Relations...
...pulling down" Evans' projection to TV size. Both men were brilliantly successful, and Evans' famed clarity of diction helped in making sense, to the untutored ear, of Shakespeare's soaring poetry. Sarah Churchill, in her first try at the role, made a surprisingly effective Ophelia, Joseph Schildkraut got pathos as well as villainy from the role of King Claudius, Ruth Chatterton was an adequate Queen Gertrude, Barry Jones bumbled happily and skillfully through his speeches as Polonius, and Wesley Addy brought objective understanding to the role of Horatio...