Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were such rare delights as Mae West burbling an aria from Samson et Dalila in her 1935 Coin' to Town, and a 1934 version of La Boheme, starring Gertrude Lawrence and Douglas Fairbanks Jr., with "music and lyrics by Giacomo Puccini and G. H. Clutsam," the latter a Hollywood tunesmith in unlikely company...
Suicidal Stereotypes. When Sandy first arrived in Hollywood, the studios worriedly urged first aid for those front teeth that protruded and the bust that didn't. Hands off, growled Sandy. In 1962, she walked out on one television job rather than pad her bustline. She said she wanted to be hired for acting ability, period. Says Herbert Berghof, her Manhattan drama coach off and on for years: "From the beginning, she knew how to find in each character she played the story that was original and new and worth telling...
...musical incarnation: The Happy Time, with fail-safe Director Gower Champion and Robert Goulet as leading man; and The Madwoman of Chaillot, by the same team (Robert E. Lee and Jerome Lawrence, Composer Jerry Herman) that converted Maine. And now, reversing the old pattern, Broadway is borrowing from Hollywood: onstage, the movie The World of Henry Orient will be known as Henry, Sweet Henry; Don Ameche is playing Peter Sellers...
Died. Jane Darwell, 86, veteran actress in more than 300 Hollywood films, a strong-featured Missourian who over the years played mother (to Henry Fonda, Humphrey Bogart), grandmother (to Shirley Temple, Fabian) and whatever other home-and-hearth character the plot demanded, most notably Ma Joad in The Grapes of Wrath, which won her a 1940 Oscar, and the Bird Woman in Mary Pop pins; of a heart attack; in Woodland Hills, Calif...
...last, the acidheads have hit Hollywood. A clear successor to the cycle of psychoanalytical films of the '40s (Spellbound, etc.) and so far about as insightful, is the first wave of movies offering a far-outside view of the mind-bending potentialities...