Word: liza
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jolly's Progress (by Lonnie Coleman) concerns a wild, scared, quick-witted young Alabama Negro housemaid who, having been seduced by her employer and sent packing by his wife, finds sanctuary with an enlightened writer. While the writer is playing Professor Higgins to the girl's Liza, the town assumes he is playing Don Juan. Preachers rail, hooded figures threaten, before a ladylike Jolly goes North for further schooling. Beyond some vivid touches by Eartha Kitt, the play has small merit. It is so gagged up with breezy situations, crude stereotypes and comic characters that the racial angle...
...Hollywood premiere, Director Vincente Minnelli laid a proud parental hand on the young shoulders of daughter Liza, 12, strikingly close to being a doe-eyed, wonder-struck replica of her mother, Songstress Judy Garland Luft...
...Adrian wrung every drop out of the part of 'Liza's father. Kilty was a model Professor Higgins, and Cavada Humphrey was properly reginal as the professor's Victorian mother...
...Mediterranean setting, what is sordid and depraved becomes corrosively hilarious. Spiro Polymerides is a sun-baked peasant Apollo. He is taken up by an arty, effeminate, high-minded official of a U.S. relief mission in Athens. To fiftyish Irvine Stroh, Spiro is a kind of male Liza Doolittle, whom he goes about refashioning in his own cultural image. Actually, Irvine is an emotional neuter except for the heartsickness he feels when Greek mulcts Greek. Spiro, who as an adolescent saw Communists murder his father and mother, regards Irvine's sentimentality about Greece as fatuous. In Spiro's world...
Born. To Elizabeth Taylor, 25, beauteous London-born cinemactress (Elephant Walk, Giant), and Mike Todd, 50, sled-jawed promoter-producer (Around the World in 80 Days); a daughter, their first child (her third, his second); in Manhattan. Name: Elizabeth (Liza) Frances. Weight...