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Boomer TV: 1963's Best Actress Emmy winner
The TV ZoneBack in the day when award ceremonies weren't as media-mad events as they are today, the Emmys were held after the TV season ended. Forty-five years ago this week, the 1962-63 Emmys were handed out to such programs as "The......Tags: Emmy Awards, Film Festivals, Dick van Dyke, Celebrity, Movies
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Gearing up for the Tonys
While Hollywood suffered through a three-month-long writers' strike that threatened to scuttle many an awardsfest, last fall's labor strife on Broadway lasted only 18 days before the stagehands and the producers agreed to a deal. Thus, the season was...Tags: Claire Danes, Broadway, Film Festivals, Harold Pinter, George Stevens Jr.
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New Broadway season: The play's the thing
The Associated PressA monster and a mermaid would seem to have the new musical market cornered on Broadway this fall, but it is plays rather than musicals that - surprisingly - are dominating the first half of the season. "The lineup of production for the fall season should...Tags: Kevin Chamberlin, Madeline Kahn, Brian Cox, Invention and Innovation, Music
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Shirley Booth, Cooper Named Oscar Winners!
The EnvelopeFrom The Times: March 20, 1953 Cecil B. De Mille, veteran Hollywood showman, last night became a prime honoree of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for his 70th film, which he made at the age of 70. His production, "The Greatest Show on...Tags: Gary Cooper, Anthony Quinn, Stanley Kramer, Film Festivals, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Incorporated
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Laurey and Annie Look Back
STAFF WRITERTHERE'VE BEEN thousands of Curlys and Laureys and Aunt Ellers and Ado Annies and Juds in the almost 60 years since "Oklahoma!" made musical history. But to have been the first, to have created a role, particularly in a show so famous, is a unique...Tags: Mary Martin, Central Park, Broadway, Astoria, New Jersey
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Enchanting Acting on FamiliarTurf
Enchanted April," which opened last night at the Belasco Theatre, comes from a genre of midlife female sunshine fantasy that has enjoyed a minor comfort niche on Broadway. In 1953, Shirley Booth won a Tony as the American spinster who finds life in...Tags: Katharine Hepburn, Michael Wilson, Broadway, Daniel Gerroll, Venice
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Playhouse keeps venerable tradition alive
Hartford Courant staff writerNot long into Act I of the Cape Playhouse story, a determined young woman in a summer dress and heels strides down a rutted, sandy drive toward a churchlike building. It is early summer 1928, and sea gull caws meld with distant hammering. The playhouse's...Tags: Elaine May, Basil Rathbone, Loretta Swit, Dana Andrews, Claudette Colbert
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Theater review, 'The Time of the Cuckoo' by Shattered Globe at Victory Gardens
Tribune theater criticA gallon of bitters with very little gin, Arthur Laurents' "The Time of the Cuckoo" opened on Broadway in 1952 with Shirley Booth playing the laughing-on-the-outside, crying-on-the-inside Ohio gal on holiday in Venice, yearning for romance. The play...Tags: Lincoln Center, Theater, Music Theater, Music
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Top winners from 1952
denotes winner Performance by an actor in a leading role Marlon Brando as Emiliano Zapata in VIVA ZAPATA! 20th Century-Fox Gary Cooper as Will Kane in HIGH NOON Stanley Kramer Productions; UA Kirk Douglas as Jonathan Shields in THE BAD AND THE...Tags: Anthony Quinn, Stanley Kramer, Joan Crawford, Richard Burton, Pandro S Berman
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