Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Where NBC had put its big money on a one-star bombshell, CBS loosed a volley of diamond-tipped arrows: The Best of Broadway, a new, monthly, one-hour drama series in color with all-star casts...
...blue-chip cast, all old pros, managed to brush away much of Royal Family's dust. Fredric March, who played Tony, the skirt-chasing screen idol, in both Hollywood and Broadway versions, roared and pranced through the TV adaptation with his old gusto. Helen Hayes, as the family's irascible matriarch, and Claudette Colbert, as the harassed heroine, played warmly and well, supported by the harrumphs of Charles Coburn as the family manager. As a play, Royal Family was not the best starter for a prestige builder. The madcap antics, the entrances and exits tended to jumble...
Peter Pan (J.M. Barrie; music & lyrics by Mark Charlop, Carolyn Leigh, Nancy Hamilton, Morgan Lewis, Betty Comden and Adolph Green), which played this summer in San Francisco with Mary Martin, opens on Broadway Oct. 20, with Dancer-Choreographer Jerome (On the Town) Robbins directing...
Quadrille (Noel Coward), a play about a businessman and a marchioness, opened in London two years ago, stars Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, begins on Broadway...
...cast as an untutored cowgirl who comes to Manhattan, falls in love with a LIFE photographer, falls out of love, falls back in love again. But it was a fine vehicle for the Hutton bounce and enabled her to do her brash singing and dancing against a background of Broadway, a fashion show and an intimate nightclub. Betty got excellent support from a pair of cowpokes (Josh Wheeler and Guy Raymond), from Kevin McCarthy as the hero, and from a new French singer, Genevieve. The music, written especially for TV by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans (Buttons and Bows...