Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This week Miss Russell is on the real cover of TIME as a result of her success in a very different role. And she regards her appearance on the cover of TIME as a climax to the critical acclaim which followed the opening of her Broadway hit, Wonderful Town...
More impressive than the obvious import of Miss Booth to play Lola is Hal Wallis' choice of Daniel Mann, the director of Sheba on Broadway, to film the screen version. Mann makes William Inge's portrait of frustration and wasted lives even more harrowing on film than it was on the stage. With few close-ups, the camera prowls the squalid little home of the Delaneys like a fascinated eavesdropper. It hides at the bottom of the stairs and catches the plump disarray of Lola as she wanders sleepily down to answer the door-bell; it watches the young boarder...
...Member of the Wedding. Carson McCullers' play about an unhappy twelve-year-old girl; with Julie Harris and Ethel Waters in their original Broadway parts (TIME...
Call Me Madam (20th Century-Fox), the 1950 Broadway hit musical, has become a handsome, hilarious, surefire hit movie. Ethel Merman struts and shouts her way through her original stage role as a diamond-in-the-rough lady ambassador. Irving Berlin's catchy score is practically intact (dropped: the topical I Like Ike; added: Berlin's 1913 The International Rag and his 1940 What Chance Have I with Love?). At its Technicolored best-with Walter Lang's zestful direction, Robert Alton's dances and a topnotch supporting cast-the movie is a bouncier, better show than...
...best of all the movie captures on film the special talents of Ethel Merman. In her first picture since the 1938 Alexander's Ragtime Band, the trumpet-voiced queen of Broadway musicomedy annexes Hollywood as well. From the opening scene, she sparkplugs the picture with a powerhouse personality. When she is in front of the camera-kicking at her train and tugging at her girdle before a royal reception, or holding a running phone conversation with "Harry" about Bess's health and Margaret's press notices-the show never has a chance to lag. When she lets...