Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When newspaper critics greeted The Dark with cheers last week and daylong lines began forming at the box office, Inge could chalk up a topflight commercial and critical record on Broadway. His previous hits: Come Back, Little Sheba (1950), with Shirley Booth; Picnic (1953), a Pulitzer Prizewinner; and Bus Stop (1955), with Kim Stanley. Hollywood bought all three. Inge's total take: close to a million dollars...
...Heaven, a play about a shoe salesman, had it produced by Margo Jones's Dallas Theater. Then he started to fiddle with an earlier short story of his about a black Scottie he had once been forced to sell. The story evolved into Come Back, Little Sheba (190 Broadway performances). "After that, they said...
Even before The Dark at the Top of the Stairs hit Broadway, Warner Bros. bought the movie rights, hired Inge to do the screenplay. "In the past, I did not feel ready to tackle Hollywood," says Inge. "But I feel now that I have some mastery my craft." Another upcoming Inge project: his first novel, a story of a boy growing up in the Midwest...
...most critics "an experimental film," but it has since served serious moviemakers as an invaluable primer on the uses of the closeup. Day of Wrath (1948) was a tenebrous expatiation on the theme of Jeremiah ("The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked"), and it roused Broadway critics to such a passion of love-hate that it ran for 13 weeks at a Manhattan art theater...
...Joey. A mildly anemic version of the full-blooded Broadway musical-with Frank Sinatra supplying a strong jolt of the glamour vitamin (TIME...