Word: famous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fight for his laurels. The first rehearsals of The Merry Widow in Vienna seemed so bad that he had to plead with the director, "Let us at least open." Its Vienna success was instantaneous, and soon Paris, Berlin, London and New York were whistling the famous waltz. But the world never gave Lehar the serious reputation he thought he deserved. He wrote: "Most people are inclined to regard operettas as something inferior-entertaining no doubt, and full of easily remembered tunes-but distinctly lower in the scale than other musical works." His own more serious works-sonatas, symphonic poems, marches...
...trouble with The Leading Lady was not that it preferred glamor to reality but that it never came close to either. It requires a little more than costumes, clichés and a liberal sprinkling of famous names to make a period and a profession seem lustrous; simply calling a bit-player "Maudie" does not make her Maude Adams. The Leading Lady, to be sure, had its moments-thanks largely to such accomplished character actors as Ethel Griffies and William J. Kelly-but there were not enough of them for the play to. run more than one week...
...Freud decided that the basis of almost all personality conflicts is "sexual." He used the word in a very broad sense to include all kinds of love and pleasure, from eating to a fondness for abstract thought. His emphasis on sex caused bitter breaks with two of his most famous followers: Carl Jung, who was sniffy about Freud's emphasis on "sexuality" in infants, and Alfred Adler, who believed that a "drive for power" was equal in importance with "sexual urges...
...when Mickey Mouse had already made Disney famous, Kamen went out to Hollywood, sold him the idea of letting him handle the manufacturing royalties. This was an aspect Disney had neglected; two years before, needing money, he had sold Mickey Mouse to a children's tablet manufacturer for a paltry $300. Kamen rushed to Manhattan to open an office called Kay Kamen, Ltd. (cable address: Mickmouse), never let that sort of thing happen again...
...plot moons over the rise of a young ballerina (Moira Shearer) and a young composer (Marius Goring) in Impresario Anton Walbrook's celebrated ballet troupe. Having spent what seems like a feature-length lifetime in making the two youngsters famous, it runs them afoul of the impresario's deadpan dictum that marriage makes a career in ballet impossible...