Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Broadway Burlesques...
Guys and Dolls. Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra, Vivian Elaine in Samuel Goldwyn's $5,000,000 version of the Broadway musical. It's a beaut, but Sam made the prints too long (TIME...
Died. Elsie Janis (real name: Bierbower), 65, bright star of Broadway and the London music halls during World War I and the early '20s, first big-name American entertainer to perform for U.S. troops in France ("The Sweetheart of the A.E.F."), oldtime cinemactress (A Regular Girl), author (So Far, So Good; Love Letters of an Actress); following surgery for perforated ulcers; in Beverly Hills Calif...
Whatever the inadequacies, Olivier more than makes up for them. His Richard is an elemental force, the principle of evil itself. The feral face (modeled, Olivier says, on the features of Broadway's Jed Harris and France's Francis I) allures the eye as a great serpent might. And Richard's ruttishness, in the amazing scene of the widow's seduction, is a slimy, cold convulsion...
Thieves' Carnival begins when three yeggs befriend a bored and not ingenuous matron. Her daughter is later involved. First offering of Lyric Productions which has brought off-Broadway roughly 217 miles. Fine Arts Theatre...