Mortimer""s bizarre, eccentric younger brother, their nephew Theodore Brewster (John Alexander), fantasizes that he is President Teddy Roosevelt.Kent""s Many Challenges in Putting on ""Prologues"":In Gould""s office, his annoying and excitable wife Mrs.The sharp-edged, stylized screenplay, by Ernest Lehman (known forSabrina (1954),The King and I (1956), and later forNorth by Northwest (1959),West Side Story (1961),The Sound of Music (1965), andWho""s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)) and the acclaimed left-wing American playwright Clifford Odets (known forGolden Boy (1939), Humoresque (1946)andThe Big Knife (1955)), was based on Lehman""s own original novelette (retitled asTell Me About It Tomorrowwhen published inCosmopolitanin 1950).Orcutt replies: "Oh you mustn""t mind he girls.They""re just full of fun.We""re like one great big family.I may not be able to give you just what you want, but I can put you in a room with a verycharminggirl, temporarily, that is, until we get a vacancy.