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...byproduct of this kind of death is learning how much you didn?t know about your friend. Phyllis occasionally referred in passing to her first husband, the actor Alexander Kirkland. His name and work were unfamiliar to me; but a glance at his career on IMDb and IBDb (Internet Broadway Database) opens a host of other connections in Phyllis? life, and raises a dozen questions that, alas, she can?t answer...
...fine features of a leading man, and that?s what he was. He made his Broadway debut in December 1925, when Phyllis was a year old. A few years later, when the movies became the talkies, Kirkland was among the hundreds of stage actors lured west. He had a contract at Fox (?The Devil?s Lottery,? ?Charlie Chan?s Chance? and the first talkie version of ?Black Beauty?), but his two notable films were made at Paramount - where he co-starred with Tallulah Bankhead in George Cukor?s first solo directorial feature, ?Tarnished Lady? - and MGM, where he got third...
...backstage? as Catherine warmed up the audience of three. When there was a momentary delay, the four-year-old announced, ?We will now have a brief intermission.? The soubrettes then materialized, to sing - not an Alicia Keys or Gretchen Wilson hit, but a number from ?42nd Street,? the 1981 Broadway show revived three years ago and still running, and, in deepest antiquity, the 1933 Warner Bros. musical. And not the famous title song or the semi-standards ?Shuffle Off to Buffalo? or ?You?re Getting to Be a Habit With Me,? but the uptempo flirtation tune ?Young and Healthy.? Diana...
...Carnegie Hall. And in a year or two or three, the musical theater may open its heart to the singing Silvestris. After all, they?re young and healthy, and they?ve got charms. The girls may live 2,500 miles away, but that night they proved they?ve got Broadway in their blood...
...Odeon - three stars in the 1986 Britchky guide - Colton had a bowl of asparagus soup with snails, and instantly endeared himself to me by laughing at a very old joke. (Punch line: ?Look at that ?S? car go!?) Then their mother and Aunt Donna took them to their first Broadway show, ?Beauty and the Beast.? They loved it! The kids now have the CD, for immediate memorizing. We expect a return visit, when two other precocious kids can put the New York show on, right here...