Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Well-Scrubbed Schoolgirl. Few Broadway stars have failed so signally to look the part. As Patty, Barbara Bel Geddes (rhymes with wed us) looks and talks more like a Bryn Mawr graduate (which she is not) than the cop's daughter she plays, and more like Barbara Bel Geddes than either. In the navy blue pullover sweater, plain skirt, saddle shoes and white dickey collar which she wears about town almost as a uniform, she could easily be confused with a well-scrubbed Connecticut schoolgirl off to the movies...
...shown her capacity for serious drama; now she has shown her mastery of the peculiar demands of airy farce. Cornell, Bankhead, Hayes and Lawrence will not have to give way to Barbara for a while yet. But the quiet radiance and well-trained competence that Barbara had brought to Broadway was enough to give the fabulous invalid plenty of hope for the day when her elders might retire. "Barbara has a terrific future in the theater," says Moon's Director Otto Preminger. "She has a brusque honesty and an instinct for the stage that is very rare...
Blonde Apprentice. Barbara had been more favorably noticed as Amy than even she suspected, and before the end of her first semester at Andrebrook, Producer Kirkland offered her a part in a real Broadway show. On Feb. n, 1941 Barbara made her Broadway debut as an amiably nitwitted ingenue in an inconsequential piece called Out of the Frying...
...stayed on the coast for another 14 months, got small parts (at $35,000 each) in two pictures (Panic in the Streets and the current Fourteen Hours) with 20th Century-Fox. Then she quit. Last fall, after a brief jaunt in summer stock, she went back to Broadway and the stage...
...York's critics gave every sign of wanting to welcome Barbara home with loud huzzas when she came back to Broadway last fall in John Steinbeck's gauntly Saroyanesque play, Burning Bright. But in the face of Steinbeck's dreary obscurities, the best most of them could muster was a cordial hello. Last month, when Barbara at last rode into town on a good play, the huzzas were unanimous...