Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...profession noted for temperament, Bellamy has been a strong, group-minded president with a talent for toughness and organization. Equity rules now apply for Canadian theaters and off-Broadway productions. The minimum scale has risen 20% since 1952, and rehearsal salaries in the same period jumped 50%. Woefully outdated agency rules were overhauled for the first time in 30 years, and the union's net worth, just shy of $750,000 when Bellamy took office, now stands at $1,500,000. despite expenditures of more than $300,000 for a new headquarters on West 47th Street...
...according to the film, Diana (Dorothy Malone) married a Broadway actor who came home from work one day to find her drunk and in bed with the man who later became Husband No. 2, a "tennis bum" who refused to work for fear he might "use the wrong muscles," and who took sadistic pleasure in driving tennis balls at Diana's face. Husband No. 3 was almost as big a lush as Diana, and together they rapidly drank up all the money she had made and inherited. According to the script, she wound up doing take-offs (including clothes...
Gigi (M-G-M), 14 years and three versions ago, was a dainty Colette novelette. Once a French movie, once a Broadway play, the spicy little tidbit is now a full-course feast for eyes and ears, an extravagant $3,000,000 cinemusical with four bright stars (Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Jourdan, Eva Gabor), a strong supporting cast, a topnotch director (Vincente Minnelli). words and music by My Fair Lady's Lerner and Loewe,* and some flooringly flamboyant sets and costumes by Cecil Beaton...
When Director Minnelli showed them his rough cut, the boys in the front office decided they had something special, and announced that the show would open like a Broadway play-white tie and hard ticket. The public seemed to like the idea. Despite advanced prices ($3 top), more than $40,000 worth of tickets were mail-ordered before the box office opened...
Stage Struck. Local girl makes good on Broadway-the hard way; with Susan Strasberg, Henry Fonda (TIME, April...