Word: fabray
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been uneven in quality, has suffered from a tendency to prolong sketches and milk laughs. Sidekick Coca is still missed, say diagnosticians, both for herself and because Caesar seemed more sympathetic as a henpecked fall guy in her sketches than he has as the assertive husband of Nanette Fabray and Janet Blair. Some argue that Caesar's artful lampooning of silent films, opera, foreign movies and other TV shows goes over the heads of millions of viewers. NBC surveys have found that his popularity is heaviest in big cities and, contrary to usual TV form, greatest among college graduates...
...Bette's vehicle, Footnote on a Doll, was far too rickety for the big Potomac. And Kaiser Aluminum's musicomedy jape, A Man's Game, went a long way toward scotching the prevailing theory that baseball can be successfully dramatized. As a lady pitcher. Nanette Fabray tossed the ball as girls always do and gave a valiant imitation of a musicomedy actress behaving as if she were in a great show. She wasn...
Married. Nanette Fabray, 36. TV singer, dancer and actress (Caesar's Hour, 1954-56); and Ranald MacDougall, 42, movie writer and director; both for the second time; in Manhattan...
...warmup for the press in 15 key cities for its April 23 NBC-TV musical starring Nanette Fabray, Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corp. will put on a closed-circuit teaser the night before the big show...
...quantity over quality; this year the awards committees pared the categories down from last year's 41 to 29. Still there was a striking imbalance. Caesar's Hour, which may be dropped by NBC at season's end, won five of the awards. Free-lancing Nanette Fabray was again named Best Comedienne for her work on the Caesar show, even though she had not appeared on it for nine months. Other principal winners...