Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Actress Ingrid Bergman, 39, signed up with 20th Century-Fox studio to do the title role in a film version of the Broadway hit Anastasia (TIME, Jan. 10). The movie will not be shot in the U.S., Ingrid's adopted homeland until 1949, when she left to star in the film Stromboli ("Raging Island, Raging Passions"), deserted her surgeon husband for Italian Director Roberto Rossellini on the raging Mediterranean island, later married little Roberto's proud papa...
...Lowell House Music Society has decided to give up the production of Smetana's opera, "The Bartered Bride," next spring "because it was just too large to handle," Stove A. Aaron '57 announced. Instead, Lowell will produce the recent Broadway musical satire, "The Golden Apple...
...Steel Hour had a lighter and happier essay on the same theme of a family consuming its own, with a TV adaptation of the London and Broadway hit Edward, My Son. Britain's Robert Morley was superb as the oleaginous trickster who believes that nothing is too good for his son-or for himself, either-and is ready to burn down a building or buy up a school to prove...
...Matchmaker (by Thornton Wilder) by another name did not smell anything like so sweet. As The Merchant of Yonkers-a rewrite of a century-old Viennese farce-it was pretty much of a flop when produced on Broadway in 1938. But as further rewritten by Playwright Wilder and lustily staged by Tyrone Guthrie, what once merely clattered now careens, what formerly sputtered now explodes...
...dramatists might take instruction from the plight of Playwright Williams, the tiger of Broadway. Magnani, as a result of this picture, will probably become a very hot item in U.S. show business, and she is the sort of lady who, if not closely watched, comes back from the ride with the tiger inside...