Word: streisands
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Dates: during 1962-1962
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Playing a garment-district secretary named Miss Marmelstein who has all the sex appeal of an eight-day-old bagel, Actress Barbra Streisand, 20, is about the only bargain in the Broadway musical I Can Get It for You Wholesale. So having arrived at star status, she felt compelled to utter a few words on her Method that would make Stanislavsky spin. "It has to be a little false to show the truth," she told a New York Post reporter. "Like I used to wear my hair down for a show, and they couldn't see my eyes, they...
...nursery rhymes. Dancers are blown about the stage like vagrant autumn leaves, but Harold Lang and Sheree North (Bogen's folly) make a scorching sex rite out of What's In It for Me? As Miss Marmel-stein. a secretary with absolutely no sex appeal. Barbra Streisand trips the show into stray laughs. For the rest. Wholesale is as quiet as Seventh Avenue on Yom Kippur...