Word: cast
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...waiting along with nightclub engagements. "I'd like to alternate between the U.S. and the rest of the world," he says, but there is no doubt that recognition at home is what pleases him most. "I played part of Porgy recently," he recalls, "and a member of the cast told me, 'You don't play it; you sing it.' That," says Adler, "is what every musician is trying...
...Raisin in the Sun. A South Side Chicago Negro family fights for its "pinch of dignity" amid tears and laughter that link audience and cast in this honestly observed and superlatively acted first play...
...beginnings in neutral Sweden. Bonnier wanted a paper that would back the Allies (only some 20% of Sweden's editors were pro-German at the time), needed an editor with enough spunk and sparkle to put Expressen apart from the rest of the Swedish press, which was generally cast in the sobersided Scandinavian tradition...
Alias Jesse James (Hope Enterprises; United Artists), for moviegoers who have almost given up Hope, is a pleasant surprise: a Bob Hope farce that is actually funny, and sometimes downright hilarious. Comic Hope is cast as "the world's worst insurance agent," a 19th century nincompoop who caps his career by writing a $100,000 insurance policy for a man who avers that he is "well known in railroad and banking circles." Only later does Hope realize that he has insured the life of the nation's No. 1 public enemy: Jesse James (Wendell Corey...
...Raisin in the Sun. A South Side Chicago Negro family fights for its "pinch of dignity" amid tears and laughter that link audience and cast in this honestly observed and superlatively acted first play...