Word: directors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...movie, and there was thunder on Catfish Row. That sort of so-called Negro dialect, said Actress Pearl (Bess) Bailey, is "undignified and unnatural. I don't care if it's Negro or Italian or Greek or French; it's in bad taste." Producer Goldwyn and Director Otto Preminger willingly told the Negro performers to leave out anything they did not like. Question: Will one of the show's most famed songs be retitled It Is Not Necessarily...
...make the guests happy," said the entertainment director at Camp Tamiment in the Poconos, and young Jerry Robbins did-as a borscht-belt dancer. Jerry (whose real name was Rabinowitz) wanted to be a chemist, but his immigrant father was toughing it out in the corset business in Weehawken, N.J., and Jerry had to take what jobs he could find...
With Pajama Game, Bells Are Ringing and West Side Story, Jerome Robbins became a director as well as a choreographer. In both roles he remains a recorder of American urban ritual; his dances pulse with the rich, peculiar rhythms of youth on the make, mostly backstage or in back alleys, in the Waste Land as well as Weehawken. This month Manhattan is in the midst of what amounts to a Jerry Robbins festival: by next week his works will hold five stages simultaneously. The American Ballet Theater and New York City Ballet repertories boast Robbins creations; West Side Story...
...graciously consented to be judges (no pay, but free room and board) at the Western Hemisphere's annual summit meeting of beauties-the 37th Miss America contest. The quartet: Book Publisher and TV Paneluminary Bennett (What's My Line?) Cerf, his wife Phyllis, Playwright-Producer-Director Moss Hart and his actress-wife Kitty Carlisle (of TV's To Tell the Truth). The following memorable dialogue took place...
...race not against each other but against the clock, on solitary, screaming runs through the timing traps on the ninemile, arrow-straight course. "These men aren't a bunch of scatterbrained kids like the hot-rodders who race around every town in America," said Southern California Timing Association Director Jim Lindsley...