Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tradition is that chorus girls get mink coats the same way minks do. But Rosemary Williamson, a curvaceous and languorous brunette, who helped take the eyestrain out of such Broadway hits as Peep Show and As the Girls Go, dropped by the office of Manhattan District Attorney Frank Hogan one day last week to deny icily that this is true...
Currently starring in the hit revival of Twentieth Century, and best known for his stage & screen acting of Cyrano do Bergerac, 39-year-old José Ferrer remains a frustrated Shakespearean actor. His only Broadway appearance in Shakespeare was as sharply etched Iago to paul Robeson's 1943 Othello. This week, with José Ferrer Presents Shakespeare (Sun. 10 p.m.) over Manhattan's station WNEW, he got a zealot's chance to share his bardolatry with a wide audience...
Born Yesterday. As the dumb blonde who wises up, Judy Holliday steals the movie version of Garson Kanin's Broadway hit comedy (TIME...
...About Eve. Joseph L. Mankiewicz's tart treatise on how to win fame and lose friends on-Broadway; with Bette Davis, Anne Baxter (TIME...
...depressing sordidness and one proud Negro's piled-up resentment against the experience of white discrimination. It is also, just as surely, an American success story. It is often vulgar to the point of endangering sympathy for its narrator. It is crudely ghost-written in a mixture of Broadway pressagentry, dubious religiosity and chip-on-shoulder sensationalism. It also has a final ring of truth that may account for its being a March selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club...