Word: successful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kind of Bum. Quick success, like his ready smile, seems to cling naturally to husky (200 Ibs., 6 ft. 3 in.), lackadaisical Jim Garner, who, unlike Competitor Sullivan, has a hard time keeping a straight face during his five-days-a-week shooting schedule on the busy back lot of Warner Bros. Confesses Jim: "I can do it better clowning." Any way he does it, Garner gets the support of brisk direction, handsome settings, some elemental but red-blooded lines from writers like Marion Hargrove and Phi Beta Kappa (U.C.L.A., '39) Writer-Producer Roy Huggins, who describes Hero Bret...
...great joy of consumers, "list price" became almost a meaningless phrase in 1957. Stores, big and little, shaved prices to meet competition, notably that of the discount houses. But price alone was no guarantee of success in 1957's hotly competitive marketplace. With more choice than ever before, customers shopped for style as well. While G.M. slipped back from 51.5% to 44.4% of the auto market, Chrysler's jet-finned new models jumped from 15.4% to 19% of the market, and Ford's crisp styling apparently nudged it ahead of Chewy into the No. 1 sales spotlight...
...veteran Music Man Willson still acts like a wide-eyed Iowa innocent. He is bowled over by the thumping success of his first musical ("I'm on Cloud 9012"), lavishes credit on the whole company for its "wholesome" approach to the job. "You hear all this business about Broadway sin and sex and smoke-filled rooms," Willson says, "but this company is different. It really is. Our kids weep with joy over the show, that's how much they feel about it. Do you know there hasn't been a gripe, not a bit of hysteria...
...Nothing prepares you for Broadway. All those years in radio with some guy holding up an applause card-that isn't show business. You aren't a success in show business until you do something that makes the people dig down in their pants pockets and buy a ticket." Last week so many people were digging down for tickets to his rollicking smash hit musical that Music Man Willson was a victim of his own success, had to watch one performance from standing room in the rear of the theater...
Died. John William van Druten, 56, prolific (27 plays) writer for stage and screen, top-drawer director (The King and I), novelist (The Vicarious Years); of a heart attack; in Thermal, Calif. A reserved bachelor, London-born Van Druten turned from law teaching to drama in 1926, scored flashy success with sophisticated, bittersweet comedies (The Voice of the Turtle, There's Always Juliet...