Word: oscars
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Just to prove that superior acting ability can be passed off as mere frosting on the cheesecake, Actress Audrey Hepburn, who won this year's Hollywood Oscar for her starring role in Roman Holiday and the top "Tony" award for her performance in the Broadway hit Ondine, expertly struck a pose for photographers to help ballyhoo her forthcoming movie, Sabrina...
...Jayvees, however, have been shaken up. Rouner has moved Bill Lawrence from 3 to 7; Frank Maybank from bow to 6; John Lizars from 5 to 3; Bill Lindemulder from 6 to 2; and Tim Gray 7 to bow. Oscar Pollock and Jim Barrett are new, taking 5 and 4 respectively. Bill Ota will call the beat...
Easily half of the competent performances in Rose Marie are the work of evergreen and sparkling streams. In fact, one giant ponderosa pinc should get an Oscar for the best supporting role. It is visible, in Cinema-scope, in every third scene, and performs equally well with Ann Blyth, Howard Keel, and Fernando Lamas, which, everything considered, is quite an achievement...
...their "development of a fresh theatrical form, the musical play" (e.g., Oklahoma!, South Pacific), Composer Richard Rodgers and Librettist Oscar Hammerstein II received doctorates (of humane letters) from the University of Massachusetts. Next day Drs. Rodgers and Hammerstein did education a good turn, endowed Manhattan's famed Juilliard School of Music with a perpetual scholarship to go yearly to a promising young singer...
Busy Sets. The show was conceived and executed in less that 30 days, beginning as a gleam in the eye of Young & Rubicam's Adman Dan Seymour, one-time M.C. of radio & TV's We The People. He sold it first to Oscar Hammerstein, who says: "We thought it was impossible in such a short time, but we took a flyer." Directed and produced by CBS's Ralph Levy, the continuity and casting of the musical numbers was the responsibility of Rodgers and Hammerstein ("But all those complimentary things they said about us, we didn...