Word: kraft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...actor, he chose Material Witness, by Henry (Time Limit) Denker, and the title role of an average householder who sweated out 50 dreary minutes in fear that gangland killers would learn of his presence at one of their crimes. The show was just another dipperful of clabber out of Kraft Theater's antique churn. Berle played the shallowly written role with egregious self-control. Conscious of his dignity as a TV elder statesman, he liked the part because it was, said he proudly, "something unbrash, unflippant and unaggressive-I wanted to get away from the Berle trademarks...
...When I was a little kid, I used to go up to the WPA workers in the street and ask if they'd like me to sing." After a session at the American Academy, she broke into television at 18, played leading roles for two seasons (Studio One, Kraft Theater], then put in a weary tour in Hollywood acting in second-rate films (New York Confidential, The Naked Street). Last August she went back to Manhattan to study acting with Drama Coach Herbert Berghof-and to find sudden fame on Broadway...
...Kraft TV Theater: After more than ten years of fighting the ratings battle for Wednesday night, TV's oldest drama series finally got around to dramatizing it. Kraft called the play The Battle for Wednesday Night. But Scriptwriter Robert Van Scoyk, who used to write for Jackie Gleason, clearly fixed his view on Sunday night and its two warring clans, the Sullivans and the Aliens. On either channel the image was poor. Jack Oakie's ogling, leering Bill ("Hello, you beautiful people") Brogan was a gusty old buffoon eating high off the ratings when the opposing network decided...
...Kraft Theater: Farley Granger was chasing Julie Wilson around the dress racks, but it was almost too dark for him to see her. "I must kill you," he snarled, a 2-ft. flashlight swinging ominously from his hand. "And all the bells in hell can ring, but they can't stop me." Then the script, something called Come to Me, by Robert Crean and Comic Peter Lind Hayes, called for tool Julie to "gasp audibly" and for demented, drifting Farley to "move forward catlike, impressed with his cleverness," shouting in a "lyric brogue": "There's a radiance...
...Kraft Theater: Star vehicles are so named because they are custom-made to carry the star. Too often, however, the star winds up carrying the vehicle, and sometimes, as in the case of a comedy called The Big Heist, even such broad shoulders as Bert Lahr's cannot carry it as far as the corner saloon. Written with an eye on Damon Runyon and a finger in a dictionary of U.S. criminal argot, the play explored a quaint old vein of humor among thieves: Lahr, as a low man on the totem pole of crime, joined another aging juvenile...