Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Best of Broadway (Wed. 10 p.m., CBS). Broadway, with Joseph Gotten, Piper Laurie, Keenan Wynn...
...their way to the top through the nightclub circuit as singers, but think of themselves primarily as actresses. This season both made big acting hits, Dorothy as Carmen in the movie version of Carmen Jones (the singing was dubbed in by Marilynn Home), Eartha as the impish heroine of Broadway's Mrs. Patterson...
...miscalculations. It used a thoroughly uninspired score. It settled for extremely commonplace lyrics. It paid little attention to the dancing. Its book floats, on a rusty keel, all over the Mediterranean and unloads benumbing wheezes at every port of call. Nor are Betty and Jane Kean among Broadway's leading leading ladies. Betty can be funny, and both at moments are fun, but theirs is distinctly a rationed, or nightclub, charm...
With what is left, Ankles Aweigh cannot easily become the big popular Broadway musical it plainly hoped to be. In one thing it can take real pride: its luscious chorus line. It has also a sort of faded pep and dated breeziness, but these links with the past make it frightfully reminiscent yet not the least bit nostalgic...
...Country Girl. A slickly made story (by Clifford Odets) about a Broadway has-been (Bing Crosby), his bitter wife (Oscarwinning Actress Grace Kelly), and a cynical director (William Holden) who tries to pull them apart (TIME...