Word: songstress
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Furies who pursue the playwright are his mother, his first wife, and his second wife, Marilyn Monroe. The transparent disguising of himself as a lawyer named Quentin and of Marilyn as a bigtime songstress named Maggie exists to be penetrated, and Miller's uninhibited autobiographical candor poses for playgoer and critic alike the disconcerting task of judging the conduct of his life and his code for the conduct of life. Yet to dispute Miller's moral conclusions, or lack of them, is not to deny the jarring impact of his play, which Director Elia Kazan has charged with...
...Manhattan key club. But essentially the members of this eclectic hell divide be tween the damned and the dim. The damned shine phosphorescently. The dim give off flickers of goodness. Among the damned: an ambisextrous movie queen (Salome Jens), a thuggish labor czar (Neville Brand). Among the dim: a songstress with maternal yearnings (Carol Lawrence), a lawyer with a festering case of Korean combat fatigue (Jack Kelly), an aging poet-turned-furniture-dealer (Walter Abel) and his wife (Carmen Mathews) who has a Ponce de Leon complex. From 1 a.m. to dawn, these characters soliloquize, harmonize (around a stage-center...
Tammy Grimes (Columbia). Standards like I'm Just Wild About Harry, You Came a Long Way from St. Louis, Anything Goes, sung as never before by the most astonishing voice in show business. Songstress Grimes hollers, husks, lisps, wails, and occasionally scorches the walls, and nobody-least of all the bandleader-can anticipate which she will do next...
...Newest Sound Around (Jeanne Lee and Ran Blake; RCA Victor). And the strangest. Songstress Lee has a foggy, seductive voice that occasionally strikes interesting effects from such laments as Laura and Lover Man. But for the most part, her pace is too languid. Pianist Blake, on the other hand, is a real find-wry, big-toned, and unfailingly inventive...
Married. Jane Froman, 44, throaty songstress (With a Song in My Heart) who made a gallant comeback from near-death in a 1943 plane crash; and Rowland Smith 55, newspaperman in Columbia. Mo.; she for the third time, he for the second; in Columbia...