Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...drama-studded week. In telling the story of a husband bedeviled by the ghost of his first wife (and then of his second wife), Coward got notable support from Mildred Natwick, who played a zany medium with all the comic zest she had brought to the part in its Broadway opening some 15 years ago. Claudette Colbert and Lauren Bacall, as the materializing wives, looked their parts more adequately than they played them, and Actress Bacall sometimes seemed uneasy when reciting the litany of her infidelities, as if she expected at any moment that an implacable censor would step onscreen...
Lillian Roth (Susan Hay ward) as a stage child was hurried so hard by an ambitious mother (Jo Van Fleet) that she lost her real self on the road to fame. In her teens-already a name on Broadway and in pictures, where she introduced such songs as Sing, You Sinners and If I Could Be with You-Lillian tried at first to find herself in love. David died. One night she went looking for herself in a bottle. Next morning she woke up in a hotel room with a soldier. To make matters worse, they were married. They stayed...
Kismet is an effective honey-coated sleeping pill, but as entertainment it's about as thrilling as an old circus poster. Based on the Broadway musical of a couple of seasons ago, the film has one claim to fame--its sets support more gilt paint per square foot than those of any other picture of 1955. But as soon as almost any one of the actors opens his mouth, the Cinemascoped splendor of Hollywood-Oriental interiors cannot hide the sad thruth that sets are just not a very satisfactory substitute for either comedy or music...
...outside movies, plays or TV appearances she chooses. Next month Marilyn will head back to Hollywood to start her first movie under the new contract. She will play an emptyheaded, wriggle-hipped blonde, but with acting possibilities, in an adaptation of William Inge's Broadway hit Bus Stop (a Monroe-approved play), directed by Josh Logan (a Monroe-approved director...
Guys and Dolls. Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra, Vivian Blaine in Samuel Goldwyn's $5,000,000 version of the Broadway musical. It's a beaut, but Sam made the prints too long (TIME...