Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hull who has been ill, said, "I'm very happy my doctors are letting me attend the ceremony and receive my citation in person." Before her recent illness she starred in the Broadway play, "The Solid Gold Cadillac...
Quadrille brought the Lunts back to Broadway in a Noel Coward period piece they had played for two seasons in London. It is, for Coward, rather Victorian in spirit as well as in setting; it scents its sinfulness with lavender, bodices its escalades in whalebone. The story takes a long evening to unfold, but can be summarized in a sentence. A marchioness and an American rail baron pursue their eloping spouses (Edna Best and Brian Aherne), fall in love while separating the lovers, and themselves elope in turn...
...Best of Broadway (Wed. 10 p.m., CBS). Ethel Merman in Panama Hattie...
When Philadelphia Merchant John Wanamaker branched out to New York in 1896, he soon made his new store as famed an institution as his Philadelphia emporium. A born pressagent, he attracted customers to his store at Broadway and Ninth Street with such gimmicks as concerts and the then-new arc lights. Canny old John Wanamaker also brought along his newfangled merchandising ideas, e.g., the one-price system, the customer-is-always-right policy, honest advertising...
...dirt: a young girl (Peggy Ann Garner) comes to New York on the make to visit her uncle (Otto Kruger), and meets a famous Broadway producer (Van Heflin). Since Heflin's wife (Gene Tierney) is out of town, he rather indiscreetly lets the girl use their apartment to write in while he is at work. The day his wife gets home, they find the girl strung up in the bedroom and a suicide note on the typewriter table...