Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Among America's best-dressed women of 1952, according to Manhattan's Fashion Academy: Mrs. Estes Kefauver; Cinemactress Ann Sheridan; Broadway Columnist Dorothy Kilgallen; Metropolitan Soprano Marguerite Piazza; Radio Songstress Jo Stafford; Musicomedy Star Vivian (Guys and Dolls) Blaine; Nina Warren, daughter of California's governor. Commented Mrs. Kefauver: "Oh, my goodness! I haven't even bought a new spring suit...
...touched liquor in 14 months, Milland is toying with the idea of just one nip. A duty call from an organization something like Alcoholics Anonymous sends him to the aid of promising Actress Joan Fontaine, who has taken to the bottle because she is afraid of facing a Broadway opening night. Milland's interest in her progresses, of course, from the clinical to the romantic. But since he is happily married to Teresa Wright and has two children, nothing much happens, and the actress and the adman finally go their separate ways, both of them stronger for having known...
Love Is Better Than Ever (MGM) works at a strenuous little plot about a dewy-eyed New Haven dancing teacher (Elizabeth Taylor), who is out to hook a blase Broadway agent (Larry Parks). In the course of her campaign, she 1) annoys him by publicly announcing their nonexistent engagement, 2) gets him tangled up in a troupe of twirling moppets at a dance recital, 3) taunts him with being a "flesh peddler." Elizabeth Taylor, ineptly striving for comic form, reveals a photogenic figure, but Parks falls flat on his farce. Completed early in 1951, Love Is Better Than Ever...
This lyrical side was given full play--perhaps too full--in the musical version of Cry the Beloved Country which appeared a few years ago on Broadway under the name of Lost in the Stars. I have a feeling (I didn't see the play myself) that this emphasis on the lyrical side was at the expense of the social-side, or message, even as the movie loses the beauty by concentrating on the social tragedy. Probably no one will ever capture the full spirit of the book in the dramatic medium...
Louis Verneuil's Broadway success has finally left the big town and started on the road to oblivion. It is easy to see why it was a long-run success but never a smash...