Word: cornelia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most ardent believer is a brash, well-formed 15-year-old Berlin schoolgirl named Cornelia Froboess-known only as Conny-who has sold 1,450,000 records on the Electrola label this year, earned royalties of $60,000 (of which her father-manager doles out pocket money at the rate of 26? a month). Sighing with all the delicate modulation of a stricken heifer, she belts out Tin Pan Alley tunes and ersatz German approximations with equal gusto. Conny just finished her first movie, commands a following of 56 adoring fan clubs with about 10,000 members. She travels about...
...Pleasure of His Company. A suave drawing-room comedy about a middle aged playboy who teaches his daughter to sip champagne before she settles down to the domestic orange juice of marriage. Cyril Ritchard, Cornelia Otis Skinner...
...Pleasure of His Company. A suave drawing-room comedy about a middle-aged playboy who teaches his daughter how to sow some wild oats before settling down to the oatmeal of marriage. Cyril Ritchard, Cornelia Otis Skinner...
THEATER On Broadway The Pleasure of His Company. Suave drawing-room comedy with a deft Cyril Ritchard as a playboy prodigal father who turns up for his daughter's wedding and turns everything around him upside down. With Cornelia Otis Skinner...
...Pleasure of His Company (by Samuel Taylor, with Cornelia Otis Skinner) is the first suavely managed drawing-room comedy in several seasons. With Actress Skinner's help, Playwright Taylor-on whose shoulders, more than anyone else's, has fallen the opera cape of the late Philip Barry-has contrived a bright tale of the prodigal father who, turning up for his daughter's wedding, turns everything around him upside down. And Cyril Ritchard, on whose shoulders have fallen both acting the prodigal and directing the play, has added greatly to the gloss...