Arsenic and Old Lace. The merry-macabre carryings-on of two nice old ladies with a weakness for adding a lethal dash to their elderberry wine.
Lady in the Dark. Psychoanalysis in a musicomedy setting, with the effervescent Gertrude Lawrence; predicaments dreamed up by Moss Hart.
Life with Father. Clarence Day’s amiable reminiscences lose nothing in this adaptation by Howard Lindsay & Russel Grouse.
My Sister Eileen. Two girls from Ohio in a Greenwich Village basement fall into some strange adventures.
Pal Joey. John O’Hara’s hoofer-heel set to music by Rodgers & Hart.
Panama Hattie. Raw & rowdy musicomedy, with Ethel Merman and Cole Porter songs.
The Corn is Green. Ethel Barrymore in a notable performance as pedagogical Pygmalion to a Welsh miner.
Watch on the Rhine. Lillian Hellman’s potent anti-Nazi drama, which won the Critics’ Circle award last year.
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