1945 - Theater, Film

Theater, Film

Theater: The Hasty Heart by Louisville, Ky.-born playwright John Patrick (originally J. P. Gogan), 39, 1/3 at New York's Hudson Theater, with John Lund, Richard Basehart, 207 perfs.; The House of Bernarda Alba (La casa de Bernarda Alba) by the late Federico García Lorca 3/6 at the Teatro Avenida, Buenos Aires; The Glass Menagerie by Mississippi-born playwright Tennessee (Thomas Lanier) Williams, 34, 3/31 at New York's Plymouth Theater, with Laurette Taylor, Eddie Dowling, Julie Haydon, Anthony Ross (Rosenthal), 561 perfs. (Margo Jones, 31, has directed the play); Lady from Edinburgh by Glasgow-born playwright Aimée Stuart (née McHardy), 54, and Edinburgh-born playwright L. Arthur Rose, 57, 4/10 at London's Playhouse, with Dulcie Gray 30, 557 perfs.; Caligula by Albert Camus 9/26 at the Teatro Hébertot, Paris; Deep Are the Roots by Arnaud D'Usseau and James Gow 9/26 at New York's Fulton Theater, with Barbara Bel Geddes, Helen Martin, Charles Waldron, 477 perfs.; State of the Union by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse 11/14 at New York's Hudson Theater, with Myron McCormick, Ralph Bellamy, 765 perfs.; Dream Girl by Elmer Rice 12/14 at New York's Coronet Theater, with Wendell Corey, Betty Field (Mrs. Rice), 348 perfs.; The Madwoman of Chaillot (La Folle de Chaillot) by the late Jean Giraudoux 12/19 at Paris, with Edwige Feuillère, now 38, creating the title role; The Gardener of Toulouse (Der Gärtner von Toulouse) by the late Georg Kaiser 12/22 at Mannheim's Nationaltheater (see 1938); Home of the Brave by Brooklyn, N.Y.-born playwright Arthur Laurents, 27, 12/27 at New York's Belasco Theater, with Alan Baxter, Kendall Clark in a play about anti-Semitism in the U.S. Army, 69 perfs.

Onetime Broadway star Lucille La Verne dies at Los Angeles March 4 at age 72; playwright Georg Kaiser in exile at Ascona, Switzerland, June 4 at age 66; playwright Edward Knoblock at London July 19 at age 71; actor-playwright Frank Craven of a heart ailment at his Beverly Hills home September 1 at age 70.

Radio: Arthur Godfrey Time 4/30 on CBS with New York-born emcee Godfrey, 37, who attracts listeners with his insouciance but offends potential sponsors by not taking their commercials seriously (to 4/30/1972); The Theatre Guild on the Air 9/9 on ABC with plays adapted for radio (to 1954).

Films: René Clair's And Then There Were None with Barry Fitzgerald, Walter Huston, Louis Hayward, Judith Anderson, British actress June Duprez, 27; Cavalcanti, Basil Dearden, Robert Hamer; Charles Crichton's Dead of Night with Mervyn Johns, Roland Culver, Michael Redgrave, Sally Ann Howes, Googie (originally Georgette) Withers, 28; Laurence Olivier's Henry V with Olivier; Billy Wilder's The Lost Weekend with Ray Milland, Jane Wyman; Jean Renoir's The Southerner with Texas-born actor Zachary Scott, 31, Betty Field; John Ford's They Were Expendable with Robert Montgomery, Iowa-born actress Donna Reed (originally Mullinger), 23; Elia Kazan's A Tree Grows in Brooklyn with Dorothy McGuire, Joan Blondell; Anthony Asquith's The Way to the Stars with John Mills, Michael Redgrave, Trevor Howard, Felix Aylmer. Also: Henry King's A Bell for Adano with Gene Tierney, John Hodiak, William Bendix; David Lean's Blithe Spirit with Rex Harrison, Seattle-born actress Constance Cummings (originally Halverstadt), 34, Margaret Rutherford (née Taylor), 52; Robert Wise's The Body Snatchers with Henry Daniell, Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi (about stealing cadavers for medical experiments); Vincente Minnelli's The Clock with Judy Garland, Utah-born actor Robert Walker, 27, in a story celebrating the quick courtships of wartime couples; Irving Rapper's The Corn Is Green with Bette Davis, Nigel Bruce, John Dall; Henry Hathaway's The House on 92nd Street with William Eythe, Lloyd Nolan, Swedish actress Signe Hasso (originally Larsson), 35, is about wartime espionage in New York; Akira Kurosawa's The Man Who Tread the Tiger's Tail; Michael Curtiz's Mildred Pierce with Joan Crawford, Canadian actor Jack Carson, 35, Zachary Scott, Ann Blyth; Lewis Seiler's Molly and Me with Gracie Fields, Monty Woolley; Raoul Walsh's Objective, Burma! with Errol Flynn; Roy Rowland's Our Vines Have Tender Grapes with Edward G. Robinson, Los Angeles-born actress Margaret (originally Angela Maxine) O'Brien, 8; Compton Bennett's The Seventh Veil with James Mason, 36, Ann Todd, 36; Alfred Hitchcock's Spellbound with Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck; Lewis Milestone's A Walk in the Sun with Dana Andrews, Richard Conte.

Director Mark Sandrich dies of a heart attack at his Hollywood home March 4 at age 44; silent-film star Alla Nazimova of a heart ailment at Los Angeles July 13 at age 66; Robert Benchley of liver cirrhosis at New York November 21 at age 56.