The Actress
- Jean Simmons: Ruth Gordon Jones
- Spencer Tracy: Clinton Jones
- Teresa Wright: Annie Jones
- Anthony Perkins: Fred Whitmarsh
- Kay Williams: Hazel Dawn, Actress
- Mary Wickes: Emma Glavey
- Norma Jean Nilsson Anna Williams
- Dawn Bender: Katherine follets
Theater fever is an American feature film, has the director George Cukor in 1953 staged for MGM. The screenplay for the actor drama wrote Ruth Gordon for her stage play Years Ago from the year 1946.
Action
The scene is New England, the time, the early 20th century. After a visit to the theater 17-year -old student Ruth Gordon Jones dreams of becoming an actress. The successful actress Hazel Dawn, who writes a fan letter, she encouraged. She applies at a major Boston theater manager, but she rejects. Parents also face Ruth's career aspirations against first. The father, a former sailor who is pursuing a humiliating low activity in a factory wants Ruth completes its education and sports teacher is. After his boss says the opinion is fired and finds a new, better job, he changes his mind about Ruth's career plans, however, and begins to support his daughter. Ruth rejects the courtship of Fred Whitmarsh and goes to New York City, where she will graduate from high school and continue to try to become an actress.
Production and reception
Production history
The screenplay was based on Ruth Gordon's autobiographical stage play Years Ago, which was played on Broadway from December 3, 1946 to May 31, 1947. The main roles in the stage version had Patricia Kirkland, Fredric March, Florence Eldridge and Richard Simon played. For the lead role of the film, the 24 -year-old British actress Jean Simmons was chosen, which had for her performance in Hamlet ( 1948) Oscar nomination and for The Dauphin and The Robe (both 1953) received an NBR Award. For Spencer Tracy theater fever was after Father of the Bride (1950) and A Godsend (1951, both with Elizabeth Taylor), the third film in which he appeared as a loving father of a full-fledged young woman, and cooperation with Simmons was very harmonious. The film critics praised later, the delicacy of its representation, which was still winning than in most of his other films.
George Cukor, who was a close friend of Tracy's life companion Katharine Hepburn, Tracy staged more films than any other director. After The Whole Truth, Adam's Rib, Edward, my son and Pat and Mike theater fever was her fifth and last film together.
The 21 -year-old Anthony Perkins was in theater fever his film debut.
Theatrical Release
The world premiere of the film pursued in the U.S. on 25 September 1953. The film was not outstanding commercial success, but was highly appreciated by film critics because of the high performances of the actors.
Reviews
" Staged Experienced, but too much committed to the template belongs to the mainly through the acting striking film is not among the strongest works Cukor. "
Awards
- Golden Globe for Spencer Tracy
- Nominated for the British Film Academy Award Spencer Tracy
- NBR Award for Jean Simmons
- WGA Award nomination for Ruth Gordon's screenplay
- Oscar nomination for Walter Plunkett costume design