Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mozart's comic opera, Cosi fan tutte (last Met performance: 1928), will be redone from scratch-also in English-with new sets by Rolf (Don Carlo, Fledermaus) Gerard. Stage director: Broadway star Alfred Lunt...
...five-year contract with Actress Mary (Studio One, Suspense) Sinclair, was negotiating similar contracts with others in an effort to build a CBS star system. Said a network executive proudly: "While they're with us they'll be moored to television-they can't do any Broadway plays or movies...
...neither by producer's whim nor happy fluke. Against the weight of popular legend, she had climbed to her eminence the hard way, through years of professional trial & error, part success and part failure. New York City's critics had watched her rise to stardom in seven Broadway plays, had seen her eclipsed by lesser stars in six Hollywood pictures. But in Playwright F. Hugh Herbert's fresh and frothy comedy, The Moon Is Blue (TIME, March 19), Barbara had returned to Broadway as that rare phenomenon-an ingenue...
...marriage and an amiable young wolf into a promise of chastity, Barbara Bel Geddes shines and twinkles with an authentic radiance. Her give & take with Co-Stars Donald Cook and Barry Nelson is sharp, sure, and exquisitely timed. Her poise is unshakable. In 1941, when she first appeared on Broadway, critics had called Barbara a "plump" and "promising" ingenue. Now, trimmer, slimmer, and thoroughly resourceful on the stage, she is an accomplished, soundly competent performer...
...About Eve. Scripter-Director Joseph L. Mankiewicz's tart treatise on how to win fame and lose friends on Broadway; with Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders (TIME...