Word: luft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...kind of evening," wrote German Critic Friedrich Luft, "when a critic is reduced to admirer and fan." Night after night crowds stormed the box office of West Berlin's Renaissance Theater without success: the four-week limited engagement of Jerome Kilty's Dear Liar had been sold out overnight. Based on the series of "wicked, wicked letters" that George Bernard Shaw exchanged over the years with Actress Stella (Mrs. Patrick) Campbell, the play crackled with the thrust and parry of Shavian wit neatly done in German. But for once G.B.S. himself was being upstaged by an even more...
...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...
...said Judy) for her scheduled 3½ week act at $25,000 a week, Maksik argued that his star had reneged on her contract, rushed in Singer Denise Darcel as a replacement. Holed up at a Park Avenue hotel, Judy admittedly broke, was seen dancing with Husband-Manager Sid Luft, whom she is suing for divorce, at expensive Manhattan night spots. Then came the law. After she failed to appear at a hearing on an $8,673 tax bill, New York State agents arrested her, took custody of her jewels and costumes (worth an estimated $55,000) because Debtor Garland...
...Star Is Born) Garland, two days after suing Movie Producer Sid (A Star Is Born) Luff for divorce (TIME, Feb. 13), cooled off, called the calling-off off. Breaking the news to the world in time-honored Hollywood fashion, Judy rang up Veteran Gossipist Louella O. Parsons, confided that Luft was not guilty of "extreme mental cruelty" as charged, added: "I thought something that wasn't true...
...Cinemactress Judy (A Star Is Born) Garland, veteran of two broken marriages, a half-hearted suicide try, long sieges of nervous illness, married Agent-Producer Sid Luft. When it seemed that a star had died, Luft resurrected her, put her back on her feet in big-time vaudeville (audiences at Manhattan's Palace and London's Palladium wept on hearing again her old, nostalgic Over the Rainbow), catapulted her higher than ever in movies and on TV. But somehow the Lufts' rainbow ended in a pot of debts, piled up, according to Luft's friends, because...