Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...directed him in Streetcar and Waterfront. "Brando is just the best actor in the world today." Many experts agree. Not since John Barrymore first hauled on his buskins has a young actor's fire brought such a light to so many critics' eyes. Almost all his Broadway performances have won rave reviews ("our most memorable young actor"), and he has backed the cinema critics into the adjective bin. They have felt in Brando's acting a kind of abysmal reality that not even Barrymore, who in all technical respects was far and away Brando's superior...
...Summer Long (adapted by Robert Anderson from a novel by Donald Wetzel) tells, on the surface, at least, a very different story from Playwright Anderson's Tea and Sympathy (the longest-run dramatic play currently on Broadway). It chronicles a summer in a Midwestern household which proves a particularly disturbing summer for the family's twelve-year-old son. Young Willie at times achieves a new awareness of some of the facts (and fictions) of life, and at other times has awareness thrust upon...
...last week had the unhappy look of rejected lovers. Both networks went all out this season to woo the TV audience. NBC splurged on "spectaculars," starting off with Satins and Spurs, starring Betty Hutton. CBS countered with Best of Broadway, featuring Helen Hayes, Fredric March and Claudette Colbert in the 1927 comedy, The Royal Family. But the viewers dialed away in droves from these extravaganzas and tuned in, instead, to old, familiar programs...
According to Trendex, CBS's big show, Best of Broadway, outscored its competition, NBC's This Is Your Life, 23.9 to 19.9. But it was a Pyrrhic victory, for This Is Your Life was showing-for the third time-its year-old episode dealing with Singer Lillian Roth's recovery from alcoholism. Hubbell Robinson, CBS vice president in charge of TV programming, conceded the rating was "not as overpoweringly high as we had hoped." He added: "It seems to me that we're going to find out whether the public will buy these things. I hope...
Brigadoon (MGM) on the Broadway stage was a wee Scots village that time forgot. On the CinemaScope screen it is a multimillion-dollar reconstruction on the Williamsburg plan, with every plastic daisy on the village green set in by hand, the sheep marcelled like chorus girls, the cottages authentic from the dew on the thatch to the sweat on the hob, and even the cricket on the hearth selected for what sounds like a Sottish burr...