Word: merman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been for most of his 48 years. Larry's father Ben Hagman was a wheeling-dealing Texas lawyer, J.R. Ewing without the meanness. His mother is Mary Martin, who is, along with Ethel Merman, doyenne of Broadway musicals. The Hagmans divorced when Larry was five, and for much of his childhood he shuttled between boarding schools and theater wings. When Martin went on the road with Annie Get Your Gun in 1947, Larry, then 15, decided to go home to Weatherford, Texas, to live with his father. One summer Ben was running for state senator, and his son drove...
...Leonard Bernstein and Set Designer Oliver Smith. In fact, Fancy Free inspired the first Robbins-Bernstein-Smith Broadway show, On the Town. From then on, Robbins went from hit to hit. Over two decades he worked with the best stars (Zero Mostel, Barbra Streisand, Judy Holliday, Mary Martin, Ethel Merman) and the best songwriters (Bernstein, Jule Styne, Irving Berlin, Richard Rodgers, Stephen Sondheim) in classic shows such as The King and I, Peter Pan, Bells Are Ringing and Gypsy...
...Clayton and Crooner Eddie Jackson. The trio played the Palace, appeared in a Ziegfeld revue, and provided the smash number for Cole Porter's 1930 musical, The New Yorkers. Other Broadway hits followed, including Porter's Red, Hot and Blue, which co-starred Bob Hope and Ethel Merman. It did not take long for Durante to get a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in Hollywood. His first film, New Adventures of Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford (1931), was written by Charles MacArthur...