Word: fabray
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...current season," were handed out for the third year. The little silver medallions went to Rex Harrison (Anne of the Thousand Days) and Martita Hunt (The Madwoman of Chaittot) for dramatic acting; Arthur Miller for writing Death of a Salesman, and Ray Bolger (Where's Charley?) and Nanette Fabray (Love Life) for their musicomedy performances...
...alternating a tale about the decline of domestic happiness in the U.S. with a succession of vaudeville acts. Between variety turns featuring magicians, quartettes, octets, horrifyingly clever children, crooners and mock madrigal singers, Love Life chronicles the marriage of Sam and Susan Cooper (Ray Middleton & Nanette Fabray) from 1791 to the present. The Coopers are a couple who never grow older, but the Cooper union is one that constantly grows worse. Love Life's argument is that steam, speed, materialism and greed have slowly wrecked connubiality. (It might be retorted that even allegorical couples were not meant to live...
...show has its very real assets: Nanette Fabray who, without losing one whit of her looks, keeps gaining in versatility and charm; and Ray Middleton, who has both voice and personality. It has some admirably lively and stylish Michael Kidd dances. It has one of Kurt Weill's most attractive scores, ranging from satiric little ditties like Progress to the full-throated tunefulness of Green-Up Time...
Jack Smith Show (Fri. 7:15 p.m., CBS). Guest: Nanette Fabray, of Broadway's High Button Shoes...
...score is commonplace, most of the lyrics are mediocre and great gobs of the humor fall flat. But the show has a redeeming bounce; it has a good comic (when he has good comedy) in Actor Silvers; it has a girl with looks and personality in Nanette Fabray. Most of all, it has a brilliant choreographer in Jerome Robbins (On the Town, Billion Dollar Baby). Robbins' best offering: a hilarious Mack Sennett ballet which grows into a masterpiece of controlled pandemonium...