Word: casts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...jobs harder to find than six months ago, workers were suddenly anxious to hold on to the jobs they had. Not because they were broke, but because they were worried, people were postponing big purchases, cutting down sharply on luxuries. Mourned a Los Angeles night-owner as he cast an eye over empty bar stools: "I guess I'll have to trim the $2 cover charge. Six months ago it didn't to make any difference. Now people are too uncertain to spend dough." The U.S. public seemed more worried about the economy than during...
...only Democrat in the Massachusetts delegation to do so. McCormack neither forgave nor forgot, especially after Kennedy beat him for control of the state Democratic Committee in a preconvention 1956 fight. At the national convention, it was McCormack who signaled to Sam Rayburn to recognize the Missouri delegation-which cast the decisive votes against Kennedy...
...Shoot Tight." "Suddenly," said Frankenheimer, "it became very important to me to get this show on." In long conferences of Manulis, Frankenheimer, cast and whole production staff, ten lines were excised for appeasement purposes. So, by Miserable Tuesday, the unexpected crisis was over, and all the principals-Frankenheimer, Serling and Gazzara, Associate Director Jim Clark and Technical Director Brooks ("Nimble Fingers") Graham-could concentrate on the ordinary weekly Playhouse 90 crisis, the need to get out a show...
Crouching before the mobile monitor unit and chain-smoking ("Three packs of Sponsor Marlboros a day"), Frankenheimer bellowed comments to his cast and production staff. "That's the shot! It's beautiful. I love it." "It's sloppy. It stinks." "Shoot tight on someone in the foreground." He turned to direct a scene where Gazzara has just discovered that his roommate is dead. "Okay. Start Benny out of the bathroom, fellows. C'mon, I don't have much time." (Explained Frankenheimer on the side: "If you don't drive them, you have last-minute...
...empty-two of the city's most popular debutantes were giving a dance that night. Despite major obstacles-including a Texas chorus that had a lot of trouble learning to sing in Italian-the production turned out to be topnotch, with bright sets, smooth and funny staging. The cast, mostly imported and mostly unknown in the U.S. (except for brilliant Mezzo-Soprano Giulietta Simionato). had been so ably picked by Impresario Kelly that the total effect surpassed the Met's memorable Don Pasquale, something of a standard for opera buffa. Said one opera veteran: "As of today, Dallas...