Word: minnelli
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Reluctant Debutante. Rex Harrison and Wife Kay Kendall, a spicy broth of a girl, ducking in and out of the soup in Director Vincente Minnelli's lighthearted peek at Mayfair manners and morals (TIME...
Replaced Redheads. Time out for a squabble with Director Vincente Minnelli held up the picture for most of a day, but it improved Frankie's disposition not at all. Hillside Hotel Clerk John Byam, 66, took a late-afternoon order for hamburgers for the Sinatra menage. "They called back and wanted two with mustard and one without," says Byam. "Then they said they wanted four. Then five. I got a little flustered. A couple of minutes later, in walked Sinatra and Killer Gray. Gray called me an old bastard. Sinatra grabbed me by my shirt collar and started dragging...
...Reluctant Debutante. Rex Harrison and Wife Kay Kendall, a spicy broth of a girl, ducking in and out of the soup in Director Vincente Minnelli's light-hearted peek at Mayfair manners and amorals (TIME...
...William Douglas Home's screenplay, adapted from his own stage version, tinkles with a profusion of grace notes that, in skillful hands, can often substitute for a full score. The pace, thanks to Vincente Minnelli's direction, is Pall Mall. Comedienne Kendall cocks an eyebrow clear up into her hairline, twists her mouth into something resembling a berserk rubber band, fixes her rival with a saccharine smile that fairly oozes gore. Actor Harrison, whether falling asleep on his feet during the national anthem or grunting amorously to a sofa pillow, still reigns as king of his wacky parlor...
When Director Minnelli showed them his rough cut, the boys in the front office decided they had something special, and announced that the show would open like a Broadway play-white tie and hard ticket. The public seemed to like the idea. Despite advanced prices ($3 top), more than $40,000 worth of tickets were mail-ordered before the box office opened...