Word: charleye
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hecht on the script), created Mrs. Grant as an uncomplimentary portrait of her mother during their courtship in 1928. "There's a line in the play 'I have three tickets to New York for me, my girl and her goddam ma,' " she recalled. "That was my Charley speaking from his heart...
...Pass the Ammunition and the poignant Spring Will Be a Little Late This Year, both World War II favorites. Then came the series of Broadway musicals that placed him firmly in the company of such show-business greats as Cole Porter, Jerome Kern and Richard Rodgers-Where's Charley (1948), Guys and Dolls (1950), The Most Happy Fella (1956) and How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1961). Based on Damon Runyon, Guys and Dolls was Loesser's masterpiece; he ran a perfect string of straight sevens with the hottest musical dice Broadway had seen in years...
WOODSTOCK, N.Y. Playhouse. Maine is fast becoming everybody's favorite aunt -at least since Charley's-attacking every adventure from fox hunting to mountain climbing with uncompromising verve...
...returning intact, with Cle Landolt and Phil Zuckerman combining with Ince. Zuckerman is fourth in Ivy League scoring to give the Crimson one of the most potent attacks in the circuit. The midfield returnees in addition to Regan are Rick Frisbee and the sophomore third line of Bucky Hayes, Charley Scott, and Ted Rumsey, the boy with the flashy motorcycle. Harvard's defensive unit was statistically about the most porous in the league, though it did not really seem that weak at all. Don Gogel, Bill Bennett, Pete Barber, Bob McDowell, Gino Giancola, and some more sophomores will return...
...Charley Fever. This hell away from hell is run by Johnny Williams (Nathan George), a black pimp who is as cold and dangerous as a switchblade. His whores saunter in and out between tricks, and the white one loves him. Johnny wants to challenge the Mafia, which is crimping his style, by assembling a "Black Mafia" to rule his own turf. An ex-con father figure who has gone straight (Walter Jones) warns Johnny that he has contracted "Charley fever" -that is, trying to beat the white man at his own game. The fever inevitably proves fatal, and finally...