Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lewis came home from the beauty parlor one evening last summer, looking forward to an evening of doing her nails and listening to the radio. She had scarcely sat down when a producer phoned, asking her to do a straight bit that night on an NBC television show called Broadway Open House. "All I had to do was bring a sexy evening gown, so I got out my royal blue velvet with the white ermine on top and got right over to the studio. There was no script or anything. They said, 'You just sit there and act dumb...
Eloquent Answer? But the trailer, however impressive, will be mainly a demonstration of the new technique. Mike Todd will be shooting for more solid entertainment in his second production, plans a $2,000,000 dramatic spectacle with music or a Cineramadaptation of a surefire Broadway musical. Cinerama's projection equipment (estimated cost: $40,000-$70,000) can be installed almost anywhere from Radio City Music Hall to the neighborhood movie houses, as long as the theater is not too narrow. Todd plans to install it first only in a single Manhattan theater, then in one house in each...
Show Boat (M-G-M), launched as a novel by Edna Ferber 25 years ago and as a Broadway musical hit a year later, has steamed across the screen twice before, in 1929 and 1936, but never with such a lavish hand at the helm. M-G-M poured $2,400,000 into the latest voyage, refitted the venerable Cotton Blossom with a bight profusion of crisply Technicolored costumes, sets and vistas. The memorable Jerome Kern-Oscar Hammerstein II score (Ol' Man River, Make Believe, Why Do I Love You?) is as dependable a mainstay as ever. But never...
Negro Baritone William Warfield helps things along for a while with a surefire performance of Ol' Man River. And at welcome intervals during its uneven course between timeless songs and dated story, Show Boat brings on the dancing of Broadway's Marge and Gower Champion, whose bounce and grace (notably in Life Upon the Wicked Stage) give the production its smoothest sailing...
Born Yesterday. Judy Holliday's Academy Award-winning performance as the dumb blonde of the Broadway hit (TIME...