Secret Service / Oh, Beauty and Youth! [DVD]

SECRET SERVICE TO: The American playwright and actor WILLIAM GILLETTE (1853 1937) is known in the annals for being the first to write a theatrical adaptation of the adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1899); adaptation that he also performed and in which he introduced a variant to the detective's paraphernalia that has superseded the one described by Arthur Conan Doyle: the curved Meerschaum pipe. Gillete also wrote various works of great popularity in his time, among which is SECRET SERVICE, the most performed of all his works after Sherlock Holmes. The last major revival of SECRET SERVICE was carried out in 1976 by The Phoenix The Atre New York in a celebrated production that was filmed for television with the same cast as the premiere. MERYL STREEP received the Award from the publication The Atre World and was a finalist for the Drama Desk Award for Best Actress.




OH, BEAUTY AND YOUTH!: JOHN CHEEVER (1912-1982), the Chekhov of the residential areas, began a long collaboration with The New Yorker magazine in 1935 in which he published stories until practically his death. OH, BEAUTY AND YOUTH! It appeared in the pages of the weekly in 1978 and, along with two other stories published that same year, The 5.48 and The Sorrows of Gin, it was immediately dramatized for presentation at the prestigious New York Great Performances. Jeff Bleckner, award-winning director of Hill Street Sad Song and the adaptation of The Music Man starring Matthew Broderick, created this atmospheric and evocative portrait of Cash Bentley, a middle-class bourgeois who fights a midlife crisis by recovering a custom of youth: running obstacle courses inside the house. Along with a MICHAEL MURPHY fresh from Manhattan we find SIGOURNEY WEAVER just five months after releasing Alien . The 8th passenger.


THE CONTENT:

Extras: Meryl Streep on Broadway / Sigourney Weaver on Broadway
Features: English Mono * Spanish Subtitles * 1.33:1 * DVD 9 * Multizone