The Fundamental Things Apply: THE SILVER CORD by Dan Callahan

Sidney Howard's name may not ring many bells today, but in 1925 he won the Pulitzer Prize for his play They Knew What They Wanted. He also wrote the ultimate exposé of smother love, The Silver Cord, which was a hit in 1926 with Laura Hope Crews in the lead role of Mrs. Phelps, the incestuous mother of two very dim sons. The play was condensed into a movie in 1933, and it was still a corker of a melodrama with an unf…

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