Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hecht first saw Lancaster act in Burt's only stage venture, the 1945 Broadway flop A Sound of Hunting. They began talking independent production immediately, and two years later they had filmed the B-minus chiller Kiss the Blood off My Hands...
...Stop (20th Century-Fox) is a rowdy little comedy that makes an engaging showcase for Marilyn Monroe's growing sureness as a comedienne. Based on William Inge's 1955 Broadway hit and skillfully liberated from the theater's confining forms by Adapter George (The Seven Year Itch) Axelrod, the film explodes with a Fourth of July excitement from the moment Cowboy Don Murray hits Phoenix to compete in his first rodeo...
Died. Bela Lugosi, 73, movie menace (Dracula, The Ghost of Frankenstein) who played Ibsen and Shakespeare in his native Hungary, got his start in horror roles in the Broadway play Dracula in 1927 (his last request was to be buried in Dracula's cape), last year married his 39-year-old fifth wife, Hope Lininger, after a hospital term for drug addiction; of a heart attack in Hollywood...
...King and I. The lavish and bouncy musical version of the Rodgers and Hammerstein Broadway hit, with Yul Brynner and Deborah Kerr (TIME, July...
Died. John Patrick Digues Treville Latouche, 38, prolific Broadway lyricist (The Vamp, Beggar's Holiday), onetime boy wonder (at 20 he had written the lyrics for the song Ballad for Americans, at 22 for the musical Cabin in the Sky); of a heart attack, shortly after revising his lyrics for the folk opera Ballad of Baby Doe (TIME, July 16); in Calais...