Word: osborns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Allen Bole, 2d., Crandall Clark, Frederick Henry Davis, Melvin Lee Fraiman, William Osborn Goodrich, 3d, John Edward Lynch, Jr., Donald Mishara, Tello John Tinti, John Edward Weinrich...
After the stage adaption of Adano (by Playwright Paul Osborn) opened in New York, Lieut. Colonel Toscani flew home from Italy on leave. He was entertained by Actor Fredric March (the stage Joppolo), Author Hersey, and Mayor LaGuardia. Solemnly he began to sign letters "Frank (Major Joppolo) Toscani...
...screen showed Joppolo carrying on-though not quite carried away by-a love affair. Joppolo also countermanded a stupid order by a general, and got transferred for it. Worst of all, Frank Toscani felt that the shadow was not sharing his huge earnings with anybody but Writer Hersey, Playwright Osborn, Producer Leland Hayward and the Playwrights Producing Co., Inc., and Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp...
...sung to a catchy, Calypso-style tune, is so different that listeners actually like it. Last week, after more than eight months on the air, it had become the undisputed No. i on the jingle-jangle hit parade. Its composers, Garth Montgomery and Len Mackenzie (of Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn), not unmindful of the famed banana smash of the early 1920s, decided to doll up their lyrics, and give them a try as a popular song...
Playwright Paul Osborn's Broadway version of Adano overcame many of the stage's physical limitations by the notably humorous, believable, touching performances of most of its minor characters and by the expert work of Fredric March as Joppolo. It was, nonetheless, episodic. Hollywood's Adano, despite an unlimited camera horizon, also manages to be episodic. Its views of shell-struck Adano are convincing enough, and its opening jeep's-eye discovery of the torn little town, with a mocking glimpse beyond shattered walls of a poster of Mock-Hero Mussolini, is excellent. But the people...