Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...native of New Mexico, has been practicing her style since 1949, when she began studying at the Actors Studio with Broadway Directors Elia (A Streetcar Named Desire) Kazan and Lee (Men in White) Strasberg, both of whom worked with the old Group Theater and became two of the ablest craftsmen to influence the U.S. stage. Television jobs and a few good on-and off-Broadway roles helped Kim along. Finally, as the homely, dry-tongued adolescent sister in Picnic (TIME, March 2, 1953), she won both the New York Drama Critics' and Donaldson awards as the year...
Married to Actor-Director Curt Conway, Actress Stanley has a three-year-old daughter and a year-old son, commutes 40 miles to her home in Centerport, L.I. Now a full-fledged Broadway star-her name was shifted to the top of the marquee and billboards after the opening-night notices-she insists: "I don't feel any different. I still want to spend as much time as I can with my children. They need me a great deal, at their...
...book is again enlivened with Hirschfeld's witty caricatures (from the New York Times), and action photographs (from the files of LIFE) replace the usual static poses of publicity stills. Kronenberger notes that two of his ten best (Golden Apple and Via Flaminia) originated off-Broadway. Perhaps, he says, "the prime significance of '53-'54 will be that Broadway, just then, began to be saved (or could it have been doomed?) by off-Broadway's contributions...
When The Man Who Came to Dinner opened on Broadway in 1939, it was an immediate hit, ran for 739 performances. Last week L'Homme Qui Etait Venn Pour Diner closed in Paris after 16 days...
Marriage Revealed. Julie Harris, 28, elfin-faced Broadway actress who became an overnight success in 1950 as a tormented tomboy in The Member of the Wedding, later starred in I Am a Camera and Mademoiselle Colombe; and Manning Gurian, 41, theatrical manager; in London...