Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bagatelle needed, in Huston's opinion, for a gentleman to live properly: "My life span would probably be lengthened. It's only trying to make $20 million that cuts short a man's years. Spending it would be healthy." After some five years away from Broadway, Chicago-born Dancer Katherine Dunham, 45, who elevated burlesque's bumps and grinds to highbrow respecta bility as Afro-Caribbean choreography, returned with her troupe to Manhattan, drew regrets from encore-cheering audi ences that her revue is booked for only a four-week...
Whining Paranoiac. For its vast middle-brow audience, TV served up a go-minute helping of Herman Wouk's Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, with most of the same cast that has carried the show to big-money grosses on Broadway and on tour across the nation. Lloyd Nolan re-created his memorable Captain Queeg, depicting the collapse of a personality, in one shattering crossexamination, from a man-to-man blaster to a whining paranoiac. Captain Queeg's character is complex yet dramatically clear, but most of the other characters in Caine Mutiny must operate as intellectual phobias...
...Asked at a Manhattan luncheon why he had changed the music in the movie version of the Broadway musicomedy Guys and Dolls, Producer Sam Goldwyn explained: "I put in three new songs to make the show better, and, to prove my point, two of the songs are already No. 1 on the Hit Parade...
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...
...Roberts. First-rate retelling of the long-run Broadway hit about life aboard a Navy supply ship, with Henry Fonda, James Cagney, William Powell, Jack Lemmon (TIME, July...