|
Search over 100 encyclopedias and dictionaries: |
Research categories | Follow us on Twitter |
Research categories
View all topics in the newsView all reference sources at Encyclopedia.com |
|||
Male Animal, The
Male Animal, The (1940), a comedy by James Thurber and Elliot Nugent. [Cort Theatre, 243 perf.] Tommy Turner (Nugent), a professor of English, suddenly finds himself confronted by two problems: the return to campus of Joe Ferguson ( Leon Ames), a former college football star and old flame of Turner's wife, Ellen ( Ruth Matteson), and an editorial in the college newspaper protesting Turner's reading of a letter sent by the anarchist Vanzetti to Vanzetti's daughter before his execution. Turner's edginess about Joe leads to getting them both drunk and engaging in fisticuffs. But the letter proves reasonably harmless, and Joe soon returns home to his own wife. Richard Watts Jr. of the Herald Tribune saw the Herman Shumlin–produced comedy as “a singularly happy combination of Thurber's comic brilliance and Nugent's gift for human and likable characters.” A 1952 revival, with Nugent, Robert Preston, and Martha Scott, outran the original production.
|
|
|
Cite this article
Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak. "Male Animal, The." The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. 31 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak. "Male Animal, The." The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. (May 31, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O149-MaleAnimalThe.html Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak. "Male Animal, The." The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. 2004. Retrieved May 31, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O149-MaleAnimalThe.html |
|
Male Animal, The
Male Animal, The, play by James Thurber and Elliott Nugent.
|
|
|
Cite this article
James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "Male Animal, The." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Encyclopedia.com. 31 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "Male Animal, The." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Encyclopedia.com. (May 31, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O123-MaleAnimalThe.html James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "Male Animal, The." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Retrieved May 31, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O123-MaleAnimalThe.html |
|
Search over 100 encyclopedias and dictionaries:
HighBeam™ Research, Inc. © Copyright 2012. All rights reserved.
The Encyclopedia.com advertising network includes:
