Word: oscars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...playing between acts, the music even made the commercials fairly tolerable. But it was no cure for Oscar Hammerstein II's script, which kept shifting uneasily between the sentimental and the sophisticated, and making each seem lamer than the other. The modern approach produced a down-to-earth skeptic of a Godmother (Edith Adams) with sequined eyelids and, for a magic wand, a drum major's baton. The attempt at innocent fairy-tale enchantment was sometimes harder to take: one interminable lovers' dialogue consisted of stilted inanities that sounded like a whole musicom-edy's worth...
Kaiser Aluminum Hour (Tues. 9:30 p.m., CBS). Murder in the House, thriller about an untried hired killer, with Oscar Homolka and Joan Tetzel...
...appearing in the French version of the play Tea and Sympathy, Expatriate Ingrid Bergman, up for best actress for her performance in Anastasia, hustled home after the last curtain, downed sedatives, and slept soundly until her phone rang at 6 a.m. with the news of her second Oscar. (Her first: in 1944, for the role of Mrs. Anton in Gaslight.) His shaved head glistening like a polished cue ball, Yul Brynner won the best actor award for his autocratic king in Rodgers and Hammerstein's successful cinemusical, The King and I (which took four other Oscars for its technical...
...sedan pulled up before CBS's Manhattan studio 72 in an old Broadway and 81st Street movie house and deposited a greying man whose Connecticut license plates read: DICR. A guard nonchalantly nodded him through, and inside, Songwriter Dick Rodgers was greeted by his longtime mate in music, Oscar Hammerstein II. Unobtrusively, they paced the outer fringes of a noisy, cluttered stage, paused beneath a blackboard reading CINDERELLA RUN-THROUGH-FULL CAST. "This is no-script day," said Hammerstein. There were 21 days left to turn the scullery maid of an idea-a Rodgers and Hammerstein musical version...
...Copyright 1957 by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein...