Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Back in Manhattan after a holiday in Europe, Broadway's youngest (18) star, Susan Strasberg, returned to the title role in The Diary of Anne Frank before quitting Broadway for the starring role (and at least $75,000) in RKO's Stagestruck, a remake of Morning Glory, which established the stardom 23 years ago of Cinemactress Katharine Hepburn...
...shotgun charge caught Harrison not in his natural habitat of Broadway fleshpots, but in the Dominican Republic. But the shotgun, sure enough, belonged to a man written up in Confidential's latest bimonthly issue: a 35-year-old professional hunter named Richard Weldy, who, according to Confidential, had lost his wife to Actor John Wayne in Peru...
Married. Carol Elaine Channing, 35, raucous, outsized (5 ft. 9 in., 136 Ibs.) musicomedy zany whose who-me? expression and wild dancing wowed Broadway in 1949's Gentlemen Prefer Blondes; and Charles Franklin Lowe, 38, Hollywood adman; she for the third time, he for the first; in Boulder City...
...William March's original novel, and in the Broadway hit adapted from it by Maxwell Anderson, this Gothic fable had a certain ghoulish conviction. While the theory that criminal tendencies can be inherited from criminal parents is ridiculous biology, it makes for bloodcurdling drama. To wipe what she believes is her tainted blood from the earth, the mother tries to kill herself and her daughter. In the novel and the play her suicide was successful, and the story's irony lay in the fact that the lethal child recovered with no one suspecting her crimes. Producer-Director Mervyn...
...Patty is planning a fourth murder when the thunderbolt gets her), what had been eerie becomes ludicrous. At the film's end, LeRoy makes his final obeisance to the stage: all the characters smilingly take their bows, and Nancy Kelly-as she did during curtain calls on Broadway-puts Patty across her knee and gives her a spanking...