Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Black-haired Eddie Fisher got his chance at Grossinger's at 17, thanks to a recommendation to Manager Jennie Grossinger by Broadway Showman Monte Proser. As a Grossinger's staff member, Eddie sang every night for a whole summer, learned how to gauge the reactions of the hotel's Broadway-wise customers, how to flash his bright smile at the right moment, how to pitch his voice for the best effect. Eddie landed wintertime jobs after that, e.g., singing during the chorus-girl numbers at Manhattan's Copacabana. But his real break came when Eddie Cantor...
Stalag 17. Director Billy Wilder's rowdily entertaining adaptation of the Broadway comedy-melodrama about a Nazi prison camp (TIME...
Married. Jose Ferrer, 41, actor-producer-director of stage and screen (Cyrano de Bergerac, Moulin Rouge, The Shrike); and Songstress Rosemary Clooney, 25 (Come On-a My House); he for the third time, she for the first; in Durant, Okla., six days after Ferrer's previous wife, Broadway Actress Phyllis Hill* 32 (The Fifth Season), divorced him in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico...
Stalag 17. Director Billy Wilder's rowdily entertaining adaptation of the Broadway comedy-melodrama about a Nazi prison camp; with William Holden (TIME...
Call Me Madam. Ethel Merman sparkplugs a big, bouncy movie version of her Broadway hit musical about a diamond-in-the-rough lady ambassador (TIME, March...