Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...morning last spring a worried young Broadway producer strode aboard a Los Angeles-New York plane with TIME'S May 1st issue clutched in his hand. For more than a year handsome Ernie Martin had scouted movies, radio, TV and theater, but he could not find the right soprano to play the mission doll in his new musical, Guys &Dolls. The girl had to be able to sing like an old trouper and look like a teen-aged angel...
...persistent producers trailed Isabel from London to Hollywood, and at last signed her up a few days before rehearsals began. A former secretary, Isabel had been an unknown chorus girl on Broadway. But Guys & Dolls, now a smash hit, has boosted her fast. "She's a find like Mary Martin," said Ernie Martin, "and it all started because I read TIME on a plane from Los Angeles...
...Broadway, having its most old-fashioned Christmas in years, revived plays that were first produced...
...play, which has appeared on Broadway, concerns a witch-boy who is allowed to become a mortal if his lover will remain faithful to him for a year...
...About Eve. Writer-Director Joseph L. Mankiewicz's overlong but bitingly witty study of a Broadway actress' success sets a new standard for U.S. film comedy aimed at grownups (TIME...