Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...opening night approached, theater directors became more and more uneasy. How would German audiences react to the Pulitzer Prizewinning Broadway hit, The Diary of Anne Frank? What would they feel about the nerve-rasping true story of the teen-age Jewish girl who hid from the Nazis for two wartime years in a cramped attic in German-occupied Amsterdam, was finally captured and killed in a concentration camp? When Germans at war's end saw actual movies of concentration camp horrors, they greeted the films with skepticism and derision. Would they jeer Anne Frank off the stage? One night...
...Like its Broadway predecessor, the new movie called Tea and Sympathy concerns a prep school housemaster and his wife and a student whose name is Tom Lee. Both tell of the suffering felt especially by these three when the boy is accused homosexuality. But the resemblance doesn't go too far. The people who adapted the play to the screen--including Robert Anderson, the playwright and now the script writer--have succeeded in making the prejudices which victimized the boy appear ridiculous. The result of their diligence is a movie that is limited by this intention. The film is uncomfortable...
...picture, for which the three Broadway leads have been retained, follows the play almost scene for scene. Tom Lee (John Kerr), the 17-year-old son of divorced parents, is a student at a New England prep school. On a campus where every red-blooded boy is expected to go out for one team or another, Tom is regarded by his schoolmates as an "off-horse." He doesn't like football or baseball. He is quiet and gentle, reads poetry, listens to classical music. One day two schoolmates see him sitting on the beach with several faculty wives, sewing...
...Stop. Don Murray ropes, brands and corrals expert Comedienne Marilyn Monroe in a rowdy version of William Inge's Broadway hit (TIME, Sept...
...King and I. The lavish musical version of the Rodgers and Hammerstein Broadway hit, with Yul Brynner and Deborah Kerr (TIME, July...