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...packed. Laid in North Carolina in the 18905, and based on Foster Fitz-Simons' historical novel, it leans heavily on such standbys as the rakehell hero (Gary Cooper), the bosomy belle of the Old South (Patricia Neal) and the brazen hussy (Lauren Bacall), who is presented as the madam of what is delicately described as a "boardinghouse for ladies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jun. 26, 1950 | 6/26/1950 | See Source »

...York, NBC and its parent company, Radio Corp. of America, offered the full $200,000 backing for the forthcoming Broadway musical Call Me Madam. In addition to profits, RCA would get the record rights to the Irving Berlin music and NBC hopes to sew up telecast rights to the script...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Morons & Happy Families | 6/19/1950 | See Source »

Broadway's trumpet-voiced Ethel Merman, who will play a party-throwing lady diplomat in a forthcoming musical (Call Me Madam), showed up an hour and 40 minutes late for a dinner engagement with party-throwing Perle Mesta, U.S. Minister to Luxembourg. Reported Ethel afterwards: "We wound up with our arms around each other, yak-yaking to beat the band. A real swell dame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Hearth & Home | 6/12/1950 | See Source »

...madam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Another Language | 4/24/1950 | See Source »

...disturbed, madam, to the extent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Another Language | 4/24/1950 | See Source »

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