Word: lili
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...supporting players, Lili Darvas, as Freud's hateful, race-conscious mother, stands out. Salome Jens, his wife, seems a bit confused as to whether she is supposed to be jealous of Elizabeth, mad at Sigmund, or loyal, and she generally has a look which can only be described as miserably bland. Sam Wanamaker does not make a clear impression in his portrayal of Freud's colleague...
...Douce. The only other works at least technically original were dreary farces-Send Me No Flowers (closed), Under the Yum-Yum Tree, Critic's Choice. In the forthcoming The Conquering Hero and Carnival, Broadway is not even adapting books, but reconverting old movies (Hail the Conquering Hero and Lili...
...payoff for only 65% in Group III. 15% in Group II and only 6% in Group I ventures. On his form sheet for 1961: Group IV. The only show still to open this season in TI's gilt-edged category, Carnival, a musical based on the film Lili, boasts a blue-chip billing of Producer David Merrick (twelve moneymakers in his last 16 attempts), Director Gower Champion (one for one), Composer-Lyricist Bob Merrill (two for two). One of the book writers, Michael Stewart, proved himself in Bye Bye Birdie; the other, Helen Deutsch, is untested, as is Star...
Hollywood's Jack Warner saw the movie and brought the beautiful young man to Hollywood, where he promptly came to the attention of Lili Damita, a star of second magnitude who earned his admiration with her "glorious boudoir art." One night Lili stood on a window sill and threatened to jump if Flynn refused to make an honest woman of her. Flynn gave in, made a $2 deposit on a venture that cost him more than $1,000,000 in alimony before he died...