Big TV drama let the women take over on all three networks last week, and the results were enough to make a girl cry.
With nuns all the rage this season, Playhouse 90's Four Women in Black put Helen Hayes through some listless paces as a saintly pioneer in Arizona, but she was largely overborne by Apaches, mesas of filmed cacti and a soporific script. On G.E. Theater's The Bitter Choice, Anne Baxter was hopelessly involvedĀand tearily terribleĀas an Army nurse whose deliberate anger was supposed to scalpel through a G.I.'s shell of apathy. As Social Lioness Dolly Madison trying to make...