Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...veritable "enemy of Greek tourism," concluded Greece's ever-watchful military dictatorship when they heard some of the things Actress Melina Mercouri, 41, star of Broadway's Illya Darling, was saying about her homeland-like advising folks not to visit Greece until the soldiers go away. Therefore, Brigadier General Stylianos Patakos solemnly announced in Athens that the regime was stripping Melina of her Greek citizenship and all her property as well. "I was born a Greek and I will die a Greek," snorted Melina. "Patakos was born a fascist and will die a fascist. If he wants...
...specials, which take him a mere matter of weeks to rehearse. These obviously left him too much free time and energy, so last week Fred Astaire, 68, went back to work in another movie. Signed for the lead in Warner Bros. $4,000,000 version of the 1947 Broadway musical Finian's Rainbow, Astaire as usual is choreographing all his own numbers, as usual is going into training like a prizefighter to get the old bones in tip-tap shape. The master will have some new bones gliding alongside, though, in the itty-bitty form of British Popster Petula...
Hoot & Holler. "Laurel and Hardy did more funny stuff than Chaplin ever dreamed of," says Comic Orson Bean, vice sheik of the Manhattan tent. He finds that studying his collection of Laurel and Hardy two-reelers helps his own performances in the Broadway musical Illy a Darling. In Detroit, the 75 tent members draw on a collection of 35 Laurel and Hardy films owned by Eric Stroh, of the Stroh beer dynasty; annually, the Detroit tent awards a "Fine Mess" trophy (a phrase from a famous Hardy line)-a $15 black derby-to the man or men who have "contributed...
...fame in 1939, when David O. Selznick chose her to play Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind; that part won her an Oscar, as did her Blanche DuBois in 1952's A Streetcar Named Desire. No movie could match the historic 1951-52 London and Broadway stage performances of Anthony and Cleopatra and Caesar and Cleopatra with Laurence Olivier, her longtime lover, second husband and most ardent tutor. The triumphs were fewer after their divorce in 1960, though she still won plaudits as the vixenish divorcee in Hollywood's Ship of Fools two years...
...York papers called it a real nice clambake, but it was more than that: a beautiful mornin', an enchanted evening and an endless stream of happy talk on the 65th birthday of Broadway Composer Richard Rodgers. NBC's Today show gave over its full two hours in the morning to a review of his life and work, and that night Mayor John Lindsay pinned the city's Handel Medallion on him during a reception at Gracie Mansion. In between came a luncheon attended by 90 of Rodgers' friends and well-wishers, including cast members from many...