Word: mitzie
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. Musicomedienne Mitzi Green, 21, onetime child movie star; and Actor-Director Joseph Pevney, 30; in Manhattan...
...will foster plays; the Citizens Committee, vaudeville and musicals. Results: U.S.O. will give Camp Shows Inc. energetic Eddie Dowling and a $645,000 budget. Buzzing around the Caribbean bases last week was an Army planeload of Camp Shows talent: Funnymen Laurel & Hardy, Singer Jane Pickens, Actor John Garfield, Dancers Mitzi Mayfair and Ray Bolger. Producer Dowling expects to send Broadway hits, cast by George Abbott, Vinton Freedley, other Broadway producers. Most ambitious Camp Shows idea: sending a stock company to Iceland for an eight-to ten-week stay...
...John Steinbeck's Mexican documentary film, The Forgotten Village, was banned as "indecent" by New York's State Board of Censors. It contains childbirth sequences. ∙ ∙ Mae Murray, suing Billy Ros& for $150,000 for invasion of privacy, lost a plea to prohibit Georges Fontana and Mitzi Haynes from doing the Merry Widow Waltz at Rose's Manhattan nightclub. Her version of it with John Gilbert re-popularized the dance 16 years...
...course, the plot is just as inconsequential as ever, and as usual it doesn't matter. You don't go to be gripped by the stirring pathos of the story-book romance of Franz Schubert and Mitzi Kranz, to weep for unrewardtd genius when the handsome, worthless Baron Schober steals the girl away and ruins Franz's inspiration so he can't finish the Unfinished Symphony. Rather you go to forget this cold cruel world and settle back for three delightful acts of life to the strains of Schubert. Hence you overlook a lot of unconvincing acting, and laugh...
Morning Star (by Sylvia Regan; produced by George Kondolf) gave Yiddish Actress Molly Picon, once the gay "Mitzi of the East Side," her first English-speaking dramatic role on Broadway. It also turned her into an old woman overnight, made her a grey-haired Jewish mama in one of those sentimental family chronicles which are rigged up each season, in a different racial garb, to catch the family trade...