Word: broadways
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ETHEL somebody...took Broadway by storm in a show called Girl Crazy the Gershwin boys wrote, did all right in Anything Goes and Du-Barry Was a Lady, made a palpable hit in Annie Get Your Gun, bowled'em over in Call Me Madam...but I can't for the life of me remember her name. Anyway, she played Madame Rose in the original Gypsy and I never thought anyone would have the nerve to replace her. But this Tolentino kid's all right. So's the show...
...style and pattern of the show's own standard opening scene. The program is TV's hottest suspense series, and its fans find in it the same inspired implausibility that characterized The Man from U.N.C.L.E. in its prime. Bruce Geller, 37-year-old film, TV and off-Broadway writer who conceived the whole enterprise, concedes that his original script was basically a paste-up of Topkapi and several other favorite movies. When Hollywood wouldn't buy it, he turned to Desilu. When Desilu proposed a series, he turned nervous, fearing he would run out of ideas...
Based on a vapid H. G. Wells story, Half a Sixpence was a modest triumph as a Broadway musical-short on substance but long on charm. On screen it is just long...