
Candle in the Wind (1941, Helen Hayes) - repro
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Maxwell Anderson’s intense wartime dramatic romance 'Candle in the Wind' was mounted by the Theatre Guild and the Playwrights' Company at the Shubert Theatre in 1941. Set in occupied France during the dark initial dawn of the Nazi regime, the claustrophobic plot follows a beautiful, fiercely determined American actress who risks her personal survival to orchestrate a complex series of briberies and escape maneuvers to rescue her French naval officer lover from a concentration camp. Directed by Alfred Lunt, the production starred stage royalty Helen Hayes in a critically lauded performance.

