The Skin of Our Teeth
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The Skin of Our Teeth is a play by Thornton Wilder that won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. It opened on October 15, 1942, at the Shubert Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut, before moving to the Plymouth
Handbill for the 1942 Broadway production. Artwork by Don Freeman.
Wilder as Mr. Antrobus in 1948
Montgomery Clift
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Edward Montgomery Clift was an American actor. A four-time Academy Award nominee, he was known for his portrayal of "moody, sensitive young men", according to The New York Times.
The Skin of Our Teeth
…in a December 26, 1942, piece called "Finnegan's Teeth." The original production starred Tallulah Bankhead, Fredric March, Florence Eldridge, and Montgomery Clift. Bankhead won a Variety Award for Best Actress and the New York Drama Critics Award for Best Actress of the Year for her role as Sabina. When she left…
Studio publicity photograph, c. 1948
Clift and Lois Hall in the Broadway production of Patricia Collinge's Dame Nature (1938)
Clift at the premiere of A Place in the Sun (1951)
Clift in the trailer for The Young Lions (1958)