Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...expect some pretty good entertainment last week. On the bill was a sampling of Musicomedienne Gwen Verdon (TIME, June 13), one of the most accomplished hip-flippers in the song-and-dance business; a play by Eugene O'Neill; a dramatic role filled by Maureen Stapleton, one of Broadway's more gifted emoters; a new version of Kitty Foyle, that nostalgic, bittersweet tale of the between-wars world; and a dramatization of a true adventure from the life of former French Premier Pierre Mendès-France. But after going through the TV meat grinder, none of these...
Target: the Funny Bone. Hip-flipper Verdon appeared on NBC's Colgate Variety Hour (Sun. 8 p.m., E.D.T.) in a salute to Songwriters Richard Adler and Jerry Ross, who wrote the music for the Broadway hits The Pajama Game and Damn Yankees. Since Gwen was scheduled to do the numbers she originated in Damn Yankees, there was every reason to believe that she would prove as irresistible on TV as on Broadway. But her specialty is spoofing sex by seductively tossing her hips in all directions, while singing her songs. Although she aims chiefly at the funny bone...
...Angels (Paramount) began life three years ago as a modest French farce by Albert Husson; adapted by Playwrights Sam and Bella Spewack, it became a hit on Broadway, and is still running in London and Australia. Now the fable about three Devil's Island convicts who put their illegal talents to work for an inept but honest businessman turns up in VistaVision, starring Humphrey Bogart, Aldo Ray and Peter Ustinov...
...Roberts (Warner) should be one of the biggest moneymakers of the year. It combines a sure-fire story, the honest-Injun appeal of Henry Fonda, and a bagful of tried and true comedy situations. Based on the long-run Broadway hit by Joshua Logan and the late Thomas Heggen, the film gains much from the CinemaScope opportunity to catch the horizon sweeps of the broad Pacific, the majestic overwater parade of a task force, and the sky-filling explosions of ocean dawns and sunsets...
...become such a threat that confidence men have tried to collect $500 to $1,000 by offering "to keep your name out of Confidential." The magazine gets its tips from bellhops, call girls, private detectives and paid tipsters, writes all its articles in its shabby Manhattan offices on Broadway. Though it offers up to $1,000 an article, few working newsmen will write for it, and almost all its bylines are pseudonyms of Confidential's editors...