Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York's Imperial Theatre at 7:45 tomorrow evening, the curtain will rise on a new musical comedy entitled Silk Stockings. There will be a full house, of course--there is always a full house at Broadway openings when the play has been created by such big names a Feuer and Martin George S. Kaufman, Abe Burrows, Cole Porter, and Jo Mielziner. The aura of a big hit will...
Eight minutes after the curtain went up on the 81st performance of the Broadway hit play Mrs. Patterson (TIME, Dec. 13), the show's star, feline Warbler-Actress Eartha Kitt, departed from the script to murmur: "I can't go through with it." Then she departed from the stage. With no understudy to throw into the breach, the theater gave refunds to some 900 playgoers. Why hadn't the show gone on? Eartha, according to her agent, was ailing seriously with a kidney infection. Whatever ailed her, she was back in the show next evening, looked...
Born. To José Ferrer, 43. Hollywood and Broadway director (My 3 Angels) and actor (Moulin Rouge, The Shrike), and Rosemary Clooney, 26, jukebox and screen songstress (Red Garters): their first child, his second, a son; in Santa Monica, Calif...
...four-contestant race to film Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace, Broadway Producer Mike Todd (TIME. Dec. 13) and Italian Producer Dino de Laurentis are well ahead of M-G-M and David O. (Gone With the Wind) Selznick. De Laurentis already has a crew in Finland ready to shoot snowy backgrounds for Napoleon's retreat from Moscow, although his six writers have not yet done the script for Director King (Duel in the Sun) Vidor. Unintimidated. Todd hired Fred (From Here to Eternity) Zinnemann to direct and Playwright Robert Sherwood to write his version, announced that...
...Country Girl. A slickly made story (by Clifford Odets) about a Broadway has-been (Bing Crosby), his bitter wife (Grace Kelly) and a cynical director (William Holden) who tries to pull them apart (TIME...