Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fact, like I do in Papakura. A Sherpa came along with letters, and there was one . . . addressed to 'Sir Edmund Hillary, K.B.E.' You have heard how your whole life is supposed to pass before your eyes at these times. Well, I could see myself walking down Broadway, Papakura, in my tattered overalls and the seat out of my pants, and I thought, 'That is gone forever. I will have to buy a new pair of overalls...
Stalag 17. Director Billy Wilder's rowdily entertaining adaptation of the Broadway comedy-melodrama about a Nazi prison camp; with William Holden (TIME...
Stalag 17. Director Billy Wilder's rowdily entertaining adaptation of the Broadway comedy-melodrama about a Nazi prison camp; (TIME...
After the final curtain on the Broadway opening night, she made the traditional visit to Sardi's Restaurant. It was crowded with first-nighters who had just seen her show. In an unparalleled tribute, they rose as one and gave her an ovation. Shirley-this time not acting-turned around curiously to see who was being applauded. After Sheba, following a favorite dictum ("An actress should make you forget everything she has done before"), she took a secondary role in the musical A Tree Grows in Brooklyn...
...Nugget, a Diamond. Paramount had bought Come Back, Little Sheba, and it now made-for Hollywood-the daring decision to let Shirley, who was unknown to moviegoers, play in the movie the same role that she had already played to perfection on Broadway. She flew to the West Coast, shot the movie in a single month, and scored a complete and effortless conquest of the movie colony...