Molly Day Thacher
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Molly's Compulsion to Mother Playwrights
Molly's compulsion to tell the authors whose plays I was directing what was wrong with their work and how they should fix it. She would mother playwrights if they'd let her in my behalf. Tennessee Williams's talent had an element of mystery for Molly, so she handled him gingerly. But Arthur Miller was within reach or so it seemed. Her play, the Egghead, opened in Cleveland in 1957 and starred Carl Malden. The reviews were positive but the play did not leave a mark.
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