Word: lyricist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lyricist Lerner's script touches up the story with such humorous byplay as a sly spoof of etiquette in a London pub on the eve of the royal wedding. It also gives Comedian Keenan Wynn a chance to shine in the double role of a brash, slang-spewing Broadway agent and the Oxford-accented twin...
Married. Nancy Walker, 28, rowdy comedienne of stage (Look, Ma, I'm Dancin!) and screen (Best Foot Forward); and David Craig, 27, Tin-Pan Alley lyricist; she for the second time; in Hoboken...
...give Strauss's 76-year-old Viennese farce of double identities and doubles entendres a shining new face,* he called on Playwright-Director Garson (Born Yesterday) Kanin. Lyricist (Inside U.S.A.) and M-G-M Vice President Howard Dietz supplied Kanin's "free adaptation" with a new English-speaking voice. Designer Rolf Gerard was recruited to repeat his earlier scenic success with Don Carlo; pint-sized Conductor Eugene Ormandy was borrowed from the Philadelphia Orchestra. The only thing not touched: Strauss's score, which, says Kanin, was "protected like a delicate child...
...Music (Paramount) is a long, tired musicomedy so closely tailored to Bing Crosby's measure that he could play it in his sleep, and, in fact, appears to be doing just that. Typed again as a lazy, breezy dodger of responsibility, Crosby this time is a famous Broadway lyricist-composer who just won't settle down to work on Producer Charles Coburn's new show. Coburn hires prim Secretary Nancy Olson to discipline Bing. Love blooms, misunderstandings loom, Crosby croons, and the show goes on (with guest stars including Groucho Marx, Dorothy Kirsten and Peggy...
Died. George Card ("Buddy") De Sylva, 54, ubiquitous songwriter of the 20s, Hollywood and Broadway producer; of a heart ailment; in Hollywood. As a Tin Pan Alley lyricist, he wrote such hits as Sonny Boy, Memory Lane, Somebody Loves Me. In the '30s, turned moviemaker, he produced five Shirley Temple heart-throbbers. In 1939-40 he tried Broadway, produced three smash musicals (DuBarry Was a Lady, Louisiana Purchase, Panama Hattie] within a year...