David Ansen

“Stevie herself probably would have scoffed at the idea that her life was the stuff of drama—and how wrong she would have been. For as portrayed by Glenda Jackson in ‘Stevie,’ Robert Ender’s film of the Hugh Whitemore play, Stevie’s splendid, piercing singularity illuminates the screen….Jackson is at her very finest, revealing just enough of the tiger under the schoolgirl façade. It’s an extraordinarily intelligent performance that brings both the woman and her art to life. But she is not the whole show: Mona Washbourne is just as astonishing….”

David Ansen
Newsweek, August 3, 1981
(from my note card. Get final general comments quoted in Washbourne section.)