![]() Born Lily Malone and cheated of love by being orphaned early (""I am a haunted house""), Lily resolves to be a great actress and starts at college in a pretentious Chinese-style opus-coached (and bedded) by her Svengali-like college professor. acting teacher says, ""Remember, Arlette: when eight-forty comes, love goes,"" oddly unaware that Broadway curtain time hasn't been 8:40 for decades.) So any appeal here must rest with Arlette's heavy-breathing personal life. In fact, the credits of gorgeous superstar Arlette Morgan read more like a Great Plays reading list than anything remotely realistic nor is the day-to-day theatrical scene-classes, auditions, rehearsals, etc.-conveyed with an iota of insider savvy. actress can win fame and fortune by playing nothing but classical roles-Juliet, Desdemona, Lady MacBeth, Hedda Gabler, Cleopatra, Beatrice Cenci (!). Can you write a novel supposedly set ha today's theater world without the slightest inkling of how show-business really operates? Apparently Winsor (Forever Amber) believes she can: this interminable soap opera takes place in a Broadway never-never-land where a N.Y. ![]()
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