Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Back from a two-month vacation in Europe, Broadway's Katharine Cornell, who had always said she would not do a movie until the right part came along, announced that she had finally found it in Author Cecil Woodham-Smith's new biography, Florence Nightingale...
Died. A. H. ("Al") Woods (real name: Aladore Herman), 81, who made and lost several fortunes as producer of hundreds of Broadway and road shows, ranging from early-century corn (Bertha, the Sewing Machine Girl) to naughty jazz-age farces (The Demi-Virgin) to hit plays (The Green Hat, with Katharine Cornell; The Trial of Mary Dugan, with Ann Harding) ; in Manhattan...
...Communist falls into a crude pattern, both as melodrama and propaganda. Its exposition of the Communist conspiracy-how the party does Moscow's work in U.S. labor unions, industrial plants, schools, minority groups -is as oversimplified, mechanical and unconvincing as the anti-capitalist preachments of left-wing Broadway plays in the '30s. For the benefit of the audience, the movie's Communists are forever reciting to each other, as if for the first time, the ABC's of party tactics. The picture represents Communists as simple gangsters, cynically out for a fast buck and the ultimate...
...About Eve. The most laureled picture of 1950 cleverly dissects a Broadway actress' rise to success; with Bette Davis, George Sanders (TIME...
Born Yesterday. Judy Holliday's Academy Award-winning performance as the dumb blonde of the Broadway hit (TIME...