Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Manhattan's Copacabana is a Scotch and watering place for Broadway's well-heeled show folk, who come regularly to pay homage to such distinguished comics as Jimmy Durante and Joe E. Lewis. Last week many of the regulars appeared as usual, but among them were scattered plenty of newcomers: moviegoers of the '30s who had turned up because the name in the newspaper ads read ''Nelson Eddy." He had been away a long time; they wanted to make sure he was the same old Nelson...
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...
Cinerama, photographed on three strips of film at once, is thrown by three projectors on a deep-curved screen so huge (64 ft. by 23 ft.) that it cannot possibly be built into the average movie house. Its effect on audiences at Manhattan's Broadway Theater was startling. It ran over the customers like a colossal vacuum cleaner, sucking them up into whatever it was doing. When the screen went for a roller-coaster ride, the whole theater seemed to heave and be dragged, screaming, after...
Call Me Madam. Ethel Merman spark-plugs a big, bouncy movie version of her Broadway hit musical about a diamond-in-the-rough lady ambassador (TIME, March...