Word: haywards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tomorrow makes womem melt their white lace collars and soak their pink handkerchiefs at the Astor. Susan Hayward gives a sensitive portrayal of the life of singer and ex-alcoholic Lillian Roth. Shows...
...Bombastes Furioso" was eminently successful. Lemuel Hayward, one of the originators of the show, wrote, "The play went off splendidly. Distaffina wore a low neck and short sleeves, and on introducing a fancy dance, the applause almost shook old Hollis down." The success of Distaffina's "dance" was primarily responsible for the birth of the "hairy legs" tradition. Ever since then, the chorus line has been built around 200-pound football guards, dressed and padded on the lines of Mae West...
...Tomorrow, but it opens today, which brings tears sooner. Susan Hayward finds "Grief spurs the alcohol habit" but thankfully "Real help comes from 'Bert', an ex-alcoholic (Eddie Albert) who gives her a tortuous 'drying out.'" Look magazine loved it. At the Astor...
...This story," according to the publicity come-on, "was filmed on location . . . inside a woman's soul!" Director Daniel (Come Back, Little Sheba) Mann, with the help of a sharp script by Helen Deutsch and Jay Richard Kennedy, gets around inside his subject with tact and agility. Susan Hayward plays her part right up to the cork; she can make the audience see not only the horror of the heroine's life but the rye humor of it, too. Jo Van Fleet is even more accomplished and convincing as the sort of stage mother who rides a child...
...Video Theater (Thurs. 10 p.m., NBC). Suspicion, with Louis Hayward, Kim Hunter...