Word: wig
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...good old days, back in 1830. In a flash the musician becomes a bugler, off to sound the charge on some sultan's daughter (Gina Lollobrigida) in Algeria. But after lolling awhile with Lollobrigida, he meets the old man again, and is off to 1790 for some wig-nuzzling with a willing aristocrat (Magali Vendeuil...
...memory and was eager to help anyone interested in him. She was also quick to defend him. Once John Mason Brown, drama critic for the New York Evening Post, wrote an article which seemed to Miss Cordingly to imply she took as an insult to Roosevelt, wore a wig. Stung by what she took as an insult to Roosevelt, she wrote Brown, demanding that he name his authority. Brown diplomatically suggested that her interpretation had been mistaken, explaining that he had been referring to a wig once worn by Ed Wynn in impersonating Roosevelt. In closing, he chided her gently...
...Hollywood Mocambo orchestra. The raven-haired lass, one Dolly Strayhorn, was plain butterfingered. Shortly after the orchestra wound up its two-week Palladium stand, Rings was awestruck to learn that Pianist Strayhorn was none other than Tobacco Heiress Doris ("Richest girl in the world") Duke, artfully slumming it, black wig and all, as a working girl...
Through and around these scenes sweeps Edna Best, wearing a stomacher, a red wig and a putty nose. Though a skilled actress, she is miscast and overplays the vulgarity of her role as she declaims fake-heroic verses, shouts uncomfortably ribald asides, and trails behind her a retinue of hairdressers, manicurists and poets. William Windom and Harry Bannister are effective as youthful and aged incarnations of women-chasers. Superbly costumed by Motley, Colombe is played against Boris Aronson's fine settings-a gauzy, grey-and-golden evocation of the Paris of yesteryear. The language of the Kronenberger adaptation...
Putting a red wig on Katherine Grayson helps to hide her usual insipid manner. If she is not spirited enough to be a convincing shrew, however, she does seem ill-tempered while kicking about the stage in "I Hate Men." As Kate's younger sister, bombastic Ann Miller is wisely given the song, "Too Darn Hot." And in the show-within-a-show, Miss Miller taps through "Tom, Dick, and Harry," one of those songs typical of Porter--unimportant in his score, good enough to be a show-stopper anywhere else. Regrettably, Miss Miller must share. "Always True...