Word: leggiest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many of Broadway's grandes dames hankered after one leading role-and a replacement part at that. Yet when Angela Lansbury stepped down from her brassy, jazzy, sassy lead in Mame after 775 performances, the plum was passed to a long shot-Janis Paiqe, 44, one of the leggiest of World War II pinups and famed as Babe Williams in 1954's The Pajama Game. "This is the show I've been waiting for all my life!" said Janis, and the first performance proved her right. "I never realized what an ovation meant until I heard what...
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