Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With A Month in the Country, the Phoenix Theater is in its third year as the most ambitious, most professional of the off-Broadway houses. While not rich, it has both means and know-how. Among its angels are Rodgers & Hammerstein, Lindsay & Grouse, Elia Kazan; among its actors have been Montgomery Clift, Nancy Walker, Hume Cronyn, Jessica Tandy, Farley Granger, Maureen Stapleton; among its directors, John Houseman, Sidney Lumet, Tyrone Guthrie...
...when Reed arrives in his grey-carpeted office on the twelfth floor of the marble-pillared American Express Building at 65 Broadway, he plunges straight into dictation. By the time the vice presidents arrive-no later than 9 a.m. if they want to avoid Reed's wrath -a drift of yellow memos has usually settled over their desks. Even on trips by car or train, Reed pores through his briefcase, dictating to a secretary...
Three times the Cummings glow has threatened to flicker out when his career seemed to reach a dead end: 1) on Broadway, 2) in the movies, and 3) on television. But last week, at 46, he was up to a candlepower to brighten any mother's eye as he starred in his own Bob Cummings Show (Thurs. 8 p.m., CBS), made a guest appearance with Perry Como, and played host (with his children: Robert, 10, and Melinda, 8) on CBS's Circus Highlights from Madison Square Garden...
Nutty Salesman. Bob taxed his mind power to capacity to get his career rolling. When he first tried to crash Broadway, he got nowhere until he made a brief trip to London, returned with a British accent and a new name-Blade Stanhope Conway. He was hired for the Broadway production of Galsworthy's The Roof. When the vogue for English actors faded, Bob changed his name to Brice Hutchens, emerged as a juvenile lead in the Ziegfeld Follies and, finally, adopted a Texas accent and took his own name to play opposite Margaret Sullavan in Hollywood...
Guys and Dolls. Sam Goldwyn's $5,000,000 adaptation of the Broadway musical; with Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra, Vivian Elaine and plenty of moxie (TIME...