Solid Gold Cadillac, The

The Oxford Companion to American Theatre | 2004 | 700+ words | Copyright

Solid Gold Cadillac, The (1953), a comedy by Howard Teichmann and George S. Kaufman. [Belasco Theatre, 526 perf.] When a sweet little old lady named Laura Partridge ( Josephine Hull) turns up at a huge corporation's stockholders' meeting and begins to ask embarrassing questions, the executives try to shut her up by giving her a job writing letters to other stockholders. Her letters are so warm and homey that by the next meeting she has enough proxies to take over the company. Her first order of business is to quietly fire the corrupt officials who had hoped to silence her. Most critics felt the Max Gordon offering was held together by Hull's beguiling performance. Kaufman's biographer, Malcolm Goldstein, observed of the play, “No one could deny that this was a slim plot and that it resounded with echoes of a score of plots concocted by Kaufman in the past.” The play marked the farewells to Broadway of Gordon, Hull, and Kaufman.

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