Word: minnelli
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...American stage in the past decade has been cast as a clown or a waif. Barbra Streisand made her Broadway debut as the office-girl clown, Miss Marmelstein. in I Can Get It for You Wholesale, and graduated to the Fanny Brice clown in Funny Girl. Liza Minnelli enjoyed her first solid success as a waif in Flora, the Red Menace, and has now gone on to fame as Sally Bowles, the waif of waifs in the film Cabaret. I Am a Camera, the nonmusical version of Cabaret, starred Julie Harris who had already qualified in The Member...
...just working in the cutting room somewhere." Tony said. Most of Tony's friends were people like Roman (Polanski), Liza (Minnelli), Michael (Winner), and a lot of other names I only grew familiar with after six months of indoctrination into England's bigtime. But Barrie was a mere cutter, and Tony told me scornfully that he was so absorbed in seeing other people's movies that he would never make...
...might go to her father's office. "It seemed like a factory to me," she says. "I loved it. I got so that I knew every inch of it, all the short cuts to different stages and all the underground passages. And all the people there knew me." Minnelli let her ride the boom with him when he was lining up a shot, giving her a view of film making that very few actresses have had. "What really interested me, though, was watching people dance," she says. "I used to go over to Rehearsal Hall B or C and watch...
Little Drama. Judy had been released from her MGM contract in 1950, after her increasingly erratic emotional behavior made her a truant from work on several pictures. A year later Judy and Minnelli were amicably divorced, and although Liza continued to see a great deal of her father, her young life was becoming complicated. Judy soon married her manager Sid Luft and embarked on a nomadic life. By the time Liza was 16, she had been to a score of schools, from Chadwick School in Palos Verdes, Calif., to suburban New York's Scarsdale High, to Whittingham in London...
...Minnelli recalls that "Liza actually was a very calming influence on her mother. Their roles were reversed; Judy had some very childlike traits, while Liza was grown-up." Adds Liza: "Mama and I talked a lot. She'd put too much trust in somebody, then they'd do something slight, and she'd take it as a slap in the face. The thing I tried to get through to her was that none of it really mattered. Of course people were going to let her down. They couldn't help...