Word: belasco
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that little Gladys Smith of Toronto apparently had at age five, when, after her father died, she started to act in stock companies. Under the guidance of her mother, the ultimate stage mom, she trouped her way out of the provinces to New York City. There Theatrical Producer David Belasco named her Mary Pickford, and D.W. Griffith, her first film director, began shaping the image from which she never quite escaped. "Through my professional creations," she once said, "I became, in a sense, my own child." She was not permitted her first romantic screen kiss until 1927, 18 years after...
...wife. As the lights dim over wafting cigar fumes, another gentleman emerges from the wings to deliver a visceral rendition of "Vesti La Jupe" from Pagliacci. All of these tunes were written during the period 1894-1905, and the names of such luminaries as Victor Herbert and Davis Belasco appear in the credits...
...this campy trash was a long-running hit in London and a smash success in Los Angeles, except that transvestism has always fascinated the British and the L.A. scene is almost as kinky. For this show, the orchestra seats have been ripped from the floor of Broadway's Belasco Theater and small café tables substituted. These are jammed together without regard for comfort or pleasure. Drinks are served throughout the evening, and in the present instance, customers are advised to get as bombed as the show. ∙T.E.Kalem
Lillian Gish was a 13-year-old actress working for Theatrical Producer David Belasco when she signed on as an extra at the eccentric David Lewelyn Wark Griffith's Manhattan movie studio in 1912. For the next ten years, she starred in some of Griffith's greatest films-Birth of a Nation, Way Down East, Intolerance. Griffith died a forgotten man in 1948, but Gish never stopped working to have his genius recognized. Last week, on the centenary of Griffith's birth and at Gish's urging, a 10? stamp with the film maker...