Word: rattigan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Orpheus & Romanoff. Patrick Dennis's bestselling novel Auntie Mame will star Rosalind Russell. Samuel (Boy Meets Girl) Spewack will try to reconquer Broadway with Once There Was a Russian. Britain's Peter (The Love of Four Colonels) Ustinov will make his bid with Romanoff and Juliet. Terence Rattigan will offer two comedies that amused London for a couple of seasons, Separate Tables and The Sleeping Prince. Tennessee Williams' newest, Orpheus Descending, will descend on Broadway with Italy's Oscar-winning Anna Magnani...
...Together in public for the first time, Marilyn, explosively protruding from a black velvet sheath, and Sir Laurence, with the ironic aplomb of a gentleman accidentally trapped in a powder room, confirmed the fact (TIME, Jan. 30) that they will co-star in a film version of Playwright Terence Rattigan's London stage hit, The Sleeping Prince. Producers: Marilyn and Sir Laurence. Director: Olivier. Breathed Marilyn: "My hope and dream was to have him ..." Sir Laurence allowed that he would like some profit participation, if he can "squeeze" it out of Marilyn...
...businesswoman became apparent when Marilyn Monroe Productions, Inc. bought a property to serve as a starring vehicle for its president, M. Monroe The property was Playwright Terence (The Winslow Boy) Rattigan's The Sleeping Prince, a London stage hit in which Sir Laurence Olivier played the prince. Marilyn also bagged the playwright, and soon had another famed theatrical technician, Director John (The African Queen) Huston...
Arriving in Manhattan last week to go to work on the screen play, Playwright Rattigan told reporters: "I am eager to meet my employer." In London, Director Huston said he "hoped" to direct the movie. In Rome, Sir Laurence said: should be delighted to make the picture with Miss Monroe. I have never met her, but I saw her films. I regard her as an actress and a comedienne of the first order, wonderfully easy to look at . . ."As for the bid to play opposite Marilyn, Sir Laurence said, "Who would resist an approach from Miss Monroe...
...America seems to have cornered the musical market and with Williams, Miller, Wilder, and Inge to match against Fry and Rattigan, perhaps has the edge in straight drama as well. On the other hand, American actors cannot meet the English standard, and the competition gets more acute daily; outside the Old Vic, the poster announces The Merry Wives of Windsor and scribbled below by a fan "starring Princess Margaret...