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Other InformationPlot SummaryJoseph Kramm`s Pulitzer Prize-winning Broadway play The Shrike was brought to the screen by its original director/star, Jose Ferrer. Most of the film takes place in a state hospital, where theatrical director Jim Downs (Ferrer) is convalescing after ... |
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Trivia and QuotesTrivia The original Broadway production of "The Shrike" by Joseph A. Kramm opened on January 15, 1952 at the Cort Theater, ran for 161 performances and won the Pulitzer Prize in Drama in 1952. Allyson badly wanted to play a dramatic, villainous role and, according to her, "begged them to let me (play Ann Downs)." However, preview audiences said "`June Allyson would never, ever put her husband in an insane asylum and leave him there. She`d at least get him out.` We had to reshoot the end of the film [where] I went back to the insane asylum . . . So I could be good. So the public never accepted me as anything but the wife and the girl next door." A shrike, according to the play, is "an innocent-looking bird who likes to impale her victim on a thorn," no doubt referring to the viciousness of the titular female character. | ||
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