Word: liebmans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stanley's Producer-Director Max (Show of Shows) Liebman spotted Hackett on Broadway two seasons ago as the tippling racketeer in Sidney Kingsley's Lunatics and Lovers and signed him for two one-shot shows. After a season of high-flying spectaculars-some right out of left field -Liebman decided to return, with Hackett, to more fertile, familiar soil (other Liebman proteges: Danny Kaye, Sid Caesar, Imogene Coca). Liebman regards Hackett as the best "take" artist since Caesar, i.e., he reacts strongly to people and things. "With Buddy," says Liebman, "it's usually the 'take...
...biggest boost as popular art forms with the Sadler's Wells Ballet's Cinderella, Puccini's La Boheme, Verdi's La Traviata, Beethoven's Fidelio, the world premiere of Prokofiev's War and Peace and Sol Hurok's Music Festival. Producer Max Liebman will try to develop Comic Buddy Hackett as a top comedian with a half-hour comedy series...
...best measure of last week's tele vision is that Truth or Consequences' brutal hoax was about the most enter taining item shown. Jack Benny contented himself with a repeat film first shown a year ago; Producer Max Liebman tossed off a lackadaisical show starring Maurice Chevalier, Polly Bergen and Dancer Chita Rivera; Wide, Wide World contributed a go-minute thinly disguised commercial for General Motors with a visit to the automakers' new Technical Center in Detroit...
...particularly with her fiance's money. Vaughn Taylor played her sad-sack lover and, at the play's end, viewers may have felt that his troubles were just beginning as he gamely settled down to married life with repentant Ethel. At week's end. Producer Max Liebman made a brave try at proving that it is still-partially, at least-a man's world with a tuneful tribute to the music of George Gershwin. But, again, the girls-led by Singers Ethel Merman, Toni Arden and Camilla Williams, Dancers Tanaquil LeClerq, Diana Adams and Patricia Wilde...
...Liebman Presents (Sat. 9 p.m., NBC). Marco Polo, with Alfred Drake, Doretta Morrow...