Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...what appeared to be a shocked silence, sat on in silence, without applauding. The elegant Düsseldorf audience filed out quietly, many moist-eyed and with smeared face powder and rouge. U.S. Actors' Coach Paula Strasberg, mother of Susan Strasberg. who created the Anne Frank role on Broadway, described what happened in Berlin: "After the curtain fell there was a deep, dark silence. Not a sound. It seemed to me the people weren't even breathing. It lasted minutes but seemed interminable. Then a thousand human beings arose and left the theater. And still there...
...thumb to her "tragically outmoded" 2,500-acre patch of flora in exurban Somerville. Flower Girl Duke countered that Greene was trying to make her "forget" a $1,797.45 suit she has brought against him for floral decorations grown on her farm and peddled in turn by him to Broadway shows. Doris was not irked by the petty cash involved. Snapped her attorney: "It's a matter of principle...
...week's end, CBS served up its first spectacular of the season (Ford Star Jubilee), a radiant TV tribute to Songwriter Cole Porter's 40 years in show business. Though pure off-Broadway Porter, You're the Top was breezy, beautiful, and one of the biggest-budgeted ($250,000) live shows in TV history. A baker's dozen of high-priced Hollywood musical stylists served up a mishmash of 24 musical numbers, stylishly staged by Broadway Choreographer Robert (Pal Joey) Alton...
When the show was first conceived, Ford executives asked: "Where are the people who sang Porter's songs on Broadway?" CBS had two answers: 1) Ethel Merman is rehearsing a new Broadway musical (Happy Hunting) and Mary Martin's heart belongs to NBC, and 2) the network hoped to avoid stirring up lingering memories. "We deliberately tried to stay away from nostalgia," said Executive Producer Jack Rayel, and "furthermore, a baritone who sang in a Porter show 20 years ago could not be compared with Gordon MacRae today in appeal...
...Stop. Don Murray ropes, brands and corrals expert Comedienne Marilyn Monroe in a rowdy version of William Inge's Broadway hit (TiME, Sept...