Movies
June, 1962
In A Taste of Honey, a sensitive 17-year-old English girl -- the daughter of a woman who's no better than she has to be -- takes as her first lover a Negro sailor, who leaves her with an offspring in the offing. Shelagh Delaney's London and Broadway hit (Playboy After Hours, February 1961) is no mere mélange of Midlands miseries. It faces the woes of working-class life as angrily as the Angry Young Men, but with grin-and-bear-it guts. Deserted by her new-married mother, the pregnant girl is befr...
