Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...theater's Helen Hayes and the movies' Teresa Wright, an achievement that could be explained only by the fast-developing herd instinct of telefolk that leads them to stick with their own. Polly's reputation has blossomed principally through coaxial cables. Neither Hollywood nor Broadway was impressed with her efforts as singer or actress, but then she signed up for a series of TV commercials for Pepsi-Cola, quickly became known the nation over as the Pepsi Girl. Here and there, now and then, Polly tried dramatic parts to no wide acclaim. The final transmutation...
...camp entertainment director. As schmalzy Uncle Samson, Ed Wynn gets a few laughs, and Claire Trevor is sharp and clear as the irritating but well-meaning mother. Natalie Wood, a great beauty, is something less than a great actress. Her most believable moment comes when Marjorie, despairing of Broadway acting fame, says mechanically: "Sometimes I think I don't have any talent...
Stage Struck. Talented local girl finally makes good on Broadway-the hard way; with Susan Strasberg, Henry Fonda (TIME, April...
Less than two blocks from Sahl's Broadway debut, England's Joyce Grenfell, a gaily chirping mockingbird, was back, after 2½ years, with her monologues and songs. After a travesty on Opening Numbers, she imitates a Stately Homeowner on TV, lady choristers at the Albert Hall, assorted cockneys and Yankees, a harebrained cultist and a cheery nursery-school teacher. Mimic Grenfell's satiric range is narrow, her lunges make mere surface wounds, and half a Grenfell loaf is better than all of one. But her art, if thin, is pure...
...cost. CBS, which put up the $400,000 for My Fair Lady, brushed off a $300,000 chance to finance The Music Man, missed a deal for 40% of the profits. Collecting modest sums from many angels, Bloomgarden got Music Man to Broadway...