Remembering Celeste Holm closes a week later, this Friday, March 1st, at Long Island University: C. W. Post, as part of the Hutton House Lectures. We began with Celeste’s 1947 Academy Award winning role, in the Academy Award winning Best Picture, Gentleman’s Agreement. The following week, we continued with her role as Karen, friend of Margo, in the 1950 Academy Award winning Best Picture, All About Eve. As always, the behind the scenes stories are just as fascinating as the films themselves.
The Golden Age of Television Drama continues at the 92nd Street Y Tribeca. It has been a successful and popular course. So far, we have discussed and viewed such live television classics as Paddy Cheyevsky’s Marty, Rod Serling’s Patterns, Requiem For A Heavyweight, and his adaptation of The Comedian, and this afternoon, the 1958 Playhouse 90 production of Days of Wine And Roses, with Cliff Robertson and Piper Laurie. The best part of the series is the post broadcast discussion, which leads to various aspects of the program viewed. In the case of Marty and Days of Wine And Roses, we have compared scenes from the remake feature versions of these broadcasts, with their original entities. There is more television drama to come, with such broadcasts as What Makes Sammy Run, Bang The Drum Slowly, and closing with the 1959 The Jazz Singer, with Jerry Lewis (recently restored). To catch the remaining classes, feel free to visit 92Y.org/InSession.
Harwood's Hollywood 