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Charity began in 1957 as the title character of Nights of Cabiria, an Italian sleeper about a Punchinello prostitute. The director-writer was Federico Fellini; the star was his wife, Giulietta Masina. Maintaining the tradition, Fosse turned the film into a Broadway musical starring his wife, Gwen Verdon, as a heart-of-gold "hostess" named Charity Hope Valentine...
CHRYSLER PRESENTS THE BOB HOPE SPECIAL (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Hope's guests are Gwen Verdon and David Janssen...
...SULLIVAN SHOW (CBS, 8-9 p.m.). CBS Studio 50 will be renamed the Ed Sullivan Theater on tonight's show, making Sullivan the first TV personality in history to have a Broadway theater bear his name. Guests Pearl Bailey, Gwen Verdon, Alan King and Wayne & Shuster are among the celebrators...
...expect a salesman to carry a 2-ft. by 6-ft. metal room divider? Frankly, we don't know what exactly to do." The housewares men scrambled as best they could. Some salesmen did business out of attache cases or in hotel rooms; former White House Chef Rene Verdon, who was supposed to perform at McCormick Place for the Scovill Manufacturing Co., whipped up gazpacho and apricot mousse in a suite at the Drake Hotel...
SWEET CHARITY, a musical suggested by Fellini's Nights of Cabirici, chronicles the sexcapades of a Manhattan taxi dancer who's looking for a one-way ticket to the altar. Gwen Verdon leads a high-kicking troupe through Bob Fosse's choreographic wonderland...