Word: hartness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...HART ANDERSON JR. New York City...
...Skinner is funny and of course an accomplished actress, but she's still much better on her own. Walter Abel acts suitably imposed upon as Ritchard's host. Charlie Ruggles makes an interesting character out of the dull role of Miss Skinner's father. The two young people, Dolores Hart and George Peppard, look pretty green next to first-rate comedy people; the girl is particularly stiff, but they are sincere...
...have its whole run downtown; the group rented the Plymouth (now the Gary) Theatre for Irwin Shaw's The Survivors, and went $5,000 into the red. The next fall production also lost heavily. In a desperate gamble, the HDC undertook an ambitious $9,000 mounting of Kaufman and Hart's The Man Who Came to Dinner, with Monty Woolley as imported guest star. Thanks largely to Woolley, this was the best show the HDC staged during this period, and it drew huge crowds. The artistic success was forgotten. however, as soon as it was discovered that...
...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...
...last the girls, in white ball gowns, paraded across a tangle of TV cables for M.C. Bert Parks ("Aren't they all perfectly beautiful, ladeezandgennimun?"). The Cerfs and the Harts, with seven other judges, voted. The tearful winner: Miss Mississippi (Mary Ann Mobley, 21; 34½-22-35). As he packed his swimsuit and prepared to leave Atlantic City, Playwright Hart's heartfelt beach comment still hung in the air: "We're God's fools...