Word: version
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...West Germany and Italy in a beat uniform of blue jeans and cowboy shirt, boasted that he had run through $4,000 in just a few weeks of high living on the Riviera. He reportedly fell in love with German Actress Sonia Ziemann, who had starred in the movie version of The Eighth Day of the Week...
Wolfe later lengthened The Mountains into a three-act play. He revised by completely re-writing; in a letter to Baker he mentions that he wrote the three-act version of The Mountains without once looking at the original script...
...songs which had been largely the fare of college bands up to that time. One of his greatest successes, of course, was "Wintergreen for President" which he based on the famous song from Gershwin's "Of Thee I Sing" which was published about 1930 or 31. Where the original version used old campaign songs he inserted instead various tunes of Harvard, Yale and Dartmouth (Princeton was omitted because there was a break in relations at that time). This device worked out very well and was an instantaneous success--subsequent audiences have found it just as entertaining. In a sense this...
Hollywood has taken a smash Broadway musical about baseball and made it into a cinematized version of This Is Your Life, with Tab Hunter playing the clean-cut All-American boy. In fact, he never ceases to look as though he just stepped out of a Gillette TV commercial. It's not that Hunter can't act, but as a singer he makes a better baseball player, and as a baseball player, fortunately, he has a double...
Auntie Mame, the cyclonic stage version of Novelist Patrick Dennis' bookful of lunacy, is playing San Francisco with brassy Eve Arden, Alabama and Tennessee with tiny but dynamic Sylvia Sidney, and Chicago with Constance Bennett, who is nearly as good as the original production's Rosalind Russell...