Cole Porter’s High Society is based on The Philadelphia Story, the Broadway play Philip Barry wrote for Katharine Hepburn in 1939. It ran for 417 performances. Today, its reputation rests entirely on ...
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Oliver Goldsmith, who wrote She Stoops to Conquer under pressure of ever-mounting debts, had the greatest difficulty in getting the play on and then found the actors weren’t keen to be in it. Co ...
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Joyce Glasser reviews Eric Ravilious: Drawn to War (July 1, 2022) Cert U, 88 mins. Writer-producer-director Margy Kinmonth’s generously illustrated documentary is the first feature film about the Lond ...
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Robert Tanitch reviews the latest DVDs Year of the Rabbit (Acorn). The Victorian crime thriller, from Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins to penny dreadful and Jack the Ripper, is as popular today as i ...
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