Word: versions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they said $6,000,000 and my mouth dropped open. They mistook it for reticence and upped it a million." The new contract calls for a half-hour filmed show featuring Gleason and his sidekicks. Art Carney, Audrey Meadows and Joyce Randolph, in The Honeymooners. This is an expanded version of a series of sketches running on his current program, which stars Jackie as Ralph Kramden, a frantic schemer who, unlike Jackie in real life, is always going nowhere in particular in a great hurry. Jackie Gleason Enterprises will retain ownership (for reruns) of the shows and will produce...
Kobayashi has also staged a musical version of Hamlet and an adaptation of Carmen. His production of Turandot, Puccini's Italianate tragedy of the Orient, became a vehicle for a truckin' chorus...
Rossini: II Signer Bruschino (Milan Philharmonic and soloists conducted by Ennio Gerelli; Vox). A lighthearted, lightweight and well-sung little opera in its only LP version...
Ugetsu. A Japanese version of the Lilith legend; with Machiko Kyo, Masayuki Mori; directed by Kenji Mizoguchi (TIME, Sept...
...most cheerful trend of the year produced three whiz-bang musicals. Carmen Jones, which put the U.S. Negro in the Hollywood big time, charged the screen with black lightning; A Star Is Born, the three-hour musical version of 1937's big hit, set Judy Garland back on top of the heap as a musicomedienne; and Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, a high old roister-doister of a show, in which the legendary rape of the Sabine women, as adapted from Stephen Vincent Benet, was reset (with concessions to the censor) in backwoods Oregon, was larded out with some...