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...script-tease of the season. Two days after it went into rehearsal, it was sold to 20th Century-Fox on a sliding-scale basis for a maximum $365,000. In Boston, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, it packed them in-but kept stalling off its Broadway opening. Then Producer Michael Todd (Star & Garter, Something for the Boys) boldly announced he would open the show there over the violent protests of Gypsy and Director George S. Kaufman, who wanted it buried. As a final flip of the G-string, Todd took advance ads in Manhattan papers reading: "Guaranteed not to win the Pulitzer Prize...
...Cohn such an "unobstructed tear-duct lad" is more likely to be one of "the pinchers and garter-snappers of America." Says he: "Recently at a dinner in Washington, the conversation was suddenly stilled as a woman loudly said to the statesman who sat at her right, 'Hands on the table, Senator...
...Star and Garter. Burlesque, very much dolled up and very little toned down (TIME. July...
...Always heavily perfumed, he was in the habit of remarking complacently: "I smell to heaven." He carried his own special brand of tea in a silver snuffbox to drink in nightclubs. He wore evening scarves by Schiaparelli, delighted in yanking up his pants leg and displaying his solid-gold garter clasps, studded with his four initials. He took up golf once but dropped it immediately, after finding himself in a locker room with a crowd of muscular, boisterous players. "It was too goddamn manly," he said...
...chorus is beautiful and abundant; the costumes are glamorous and scanty. Bouncing Bobby Clark is there for laughs, and Burlesqueen Gypsy Rose Lee is there for lure. Tropical Georgia Sothern is there for the really intense customers, and fat, shameless Carrie Finnell for the really incorrigible ones. Star and Garter is a riot of off-color...