| re: No 'Applause' for me | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 06:18 pm EDT 08/16/24 | |
| In reply to: re: No 'Applause' for me - dbdbdb 10:52 am EDT 08/16/24 | |
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| In Gary Carey's book More About All About Eve (not to be confused with All About All About Eve, by Sam Staggs), there is a very long interview with Mankiewicz. Carey asks him about whether Addison was based on George Jean Nathan. Carey mentions both Nathan's relationships with various young actresses and his vitriolic anti-Hollywood stance. Mankiewicz said, "In his mannerisms and posturings, I suppose, Addison reflects some of those of George Nathan — but not to the exclusion of many others on the periphery of the creative community." Regarding what I said about there being no real person remotely comparable to Addison, in the book Mankiewicz is quoted saying, "Addison DeWitt, as an inhabitant of the Theatre, is a greatly exaggerated character. His component parts exist — and have existed — in reality. But not the sum total of them. Not nearly." Some of the critics for the daily papers had Sunday columns in which they would comment more on recent openings, so they had, after a fashion, columns, but they weren't concerned with gossip about the theatre and people were not interviewed in them. Addison seems to be some kind of uniquely powerful critic and gossip columnist. There was no one like that. For decades, several of the major dailies (maybe all of them) had daily theatre columns in which theatre news was announced. And these were literally daily, every day. That's how important theatre was back then (and how much theatre news there was). But, again, those columns imparted news, not gossip. |
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