Word: windham
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Dates: during 1945-1945
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...Touched Me! (by Tennessee Williams & Donald Windham; "suggested" by D. H. Lawrence's short story; produced by Guthrie McClintic) is dubbed a "romantic comedy." Few romantic comedies have either soared with so much message or stooped to so many monkeyshines...
Playwrights Williams (The Glass Menagerie) and Windham are soapboxing for Life, Growth, Fulfillment and the Future. They set these abstractions up in an English country house, and arrange a match against Stagnation, Snobbishness, the Status Quo, Prudishness and Decay. On Life's side, along with a young flyer, is the young heroine's father (Edmund Gwenn), a rum-soaked old sea captain full of Elizabethan gusto; on Stagnation's side is the heroine's aunt (Catherine Willard), a snooping spinster full of Victorian gentility. The trouble with such highly contrasted symbols is that they themselves...
...Glass Menagerie," though it wasn't a comedy, showed that Mr. Williams of the geographical handle was a humorist with a nice sense of recent American history. Teamed with Donald Windham and adapting a D. H. Lawrence story with an English setting, Williams now quits poignancy and takes to straight comedy, takes to it like a duck to water...