The Sheila Variations (Free subscription) | 09/08/2008
Next book on my "entertainment biography" shelf: Tracy and Hepburn: An Intimate Memoir, by Garson Kanin Garson Kanin, screenwriter, director, raconteur, husband of Ruth Gordon, author (did the man ever sleep?) was dear friends with both Spencer Tracy and Katharine...
The Sheila Variations (Free subscription) | 06/28/2008
She's so damn brilliant it's almost daunting. I need to write more about her. David Thomson wrote: The story goes that Adam's Rib was a conspiracy between Cukor, Katharine Hepburn, and Garson Kanin to convince Harry Cohn, the boss of...
PlayBill (Free subscription) | 04/16/2008
Glass Menagerie and DiPietro World Premiere Complete Florida Rep SeasonTennessee Williams' haunting family portrait The Glass Menagerie will kick off the 2008-2009 season at Florida Repertory Theatre.Amanda, Laura and Tom Wingfield, the characters central to Menagerie, take to the Florida stage Sept. 23-Oct. 12. Garson Kanin's long-running Broadway comedy Born Yesterday will follow, playing Oct. 24-Nov....
Film Forno (Free subscription) | 04/01/2008
Jules Dassin as the Informer Cesaer in his masterpice “Rififi” The great filmmaker Jules Dassin has dies at age 96. I grew up watching Brute Force , a masterful prison drama with Burt Lancaster and a fascistic warden, Hume Croynin, and The Naked City on WOR’s Million Dollar Movie. The Naked City is [...]
Bill Peschel (Free subscription) | 03/13/2008
B orn today: Joseph Priestley, scientist, essayist, theologian, Birstall, Fieldhead, Yorkshire, 1733; Hugh Walpole, novelist, critic, playwright, Auckland, New Zealand,1884; Genét (ps. Janet Flanner), journalist, Indianapolis, Ind., 1892; George Seferis, poet, Smyrna, Anatolia, Ottoman Empire, 1900; L(afayette) Ronald Hubbard, novelist, essayist, Tilden, Neb., 1911; W(illiam) O(rmond) Mitchell, author,...
ABC TV (Free subscription) | 03/01/2008
An alcoholic college professor tries to make ends meet while raising two children alone. CAST: John Barrymore, Virginia Weidler, Peter Holden, Katherine Alexander, Donald McBrinde DIR: Garson Kanin (1939)
PlayBill (Free subscription) | 02/04/2008
: FEBRUARY 4and Anne Bradley Thornton Wilder turns the spotlight on the simple trials and tribulations of Our Town. Martha Scott and Frank Craven are among the cast at the Henry Miller Theatre. The production will run 42 weeks and go on to win the Pulitzer Prize. Thornton Wilder turns the spotlight on the simple trials and tribulations of Our Town. Martha Scott and Frank Craven are among the cast at...
PlayBill (Free subscription) | 01/30/2008
Today In Theatre History: JANUARY 30and Christopher Reichheld and Anne Bradley 1911 Hugh Herbert Hipple is born today in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. After dropping two H's, he will become suave actor Hugh Marlowe. In 1940 he will appear in Elmer Rice's Flight To the West. 1911 Hugh Herbert Hipple is born today in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. After dropping two H's, he will become suave actor Hugh Marlowe....
ABC TV (Free subscription) | 01/22/2008
A girl who wants to marry a millionaire ends up choosing between three working class boys. CAST: Ginger Rodgers, George Murphy, Jane Seymour, Phil Silvers DIR: Garson Kanin (1941)
ABC TV (Free subscription) | 01/17/2008
A shopgirl finds an abandoned baby and is mistaken for its mother, while the department store owner's son is mistaken for its father. CAST: Ginger Rogers, David Niven, Charles Coburn, Frank Albertson DIR: Garson Kanin (1939)
PlayBill (Free subscription) | 12/26/2007
Today in Theatre History: DECEMBER 26and Christopher Reichheld and Anne Bradley 1904 Maude Adams returns to Broadway with a revival of J.M. Barrie's The Little Minister. It opens tonight and runs just 73 performances. A year later she'll be back with a better Barrie play, the original Peter Pan1904 Maude Adams returns to Broadway with a revival of J.M. Barrie's The Little Minister. It opens tonight...
GreenCine Daily (Free subscription) | 11/21/2007
"Bringing RKO back to the big screen, [RKO Lost & Found] features true rarities: six films made between 1933 and '38 that have pretty much gone unseen since then, due to a complicated series of rights issues." In particular,...
PlayBill (Free subscription) | 10/05/2007
PHOTO CALL: Albee Receives Edwin Booth Lifetime AchievementPulitzer Prize-winning playwright Edward Albee, who will be represented on several stages this season, received The Players Edwin Booth Lifetime Achievement Award Sept. 30 at a black-tie event at The Players on Gramercy Park. Marian Seldes, a past recipient, presented Albee with his award. The "Eddie," which was last bestowed upon Angela Lansbury,...
PlayBill (Free subscription) | 09/30/2007
Hutton Presents Albee with Edwin Booth Lifetime Achievement Award Sept. 30Playwright Edward Albee.Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Edward Albee, who will be represented on several stages this season, will receive The Players Edwin Booth Lifetime Achievement Award Sept. 30 at a black-tie event at The Players on Gramercy Park. Timothy Hutton, the Players president, is scheduled to present Albee with...
PlayBill (Free subscription) | 09/13/2007
Hutton to Present Albee with Edwin Booth Lifetime Achievement AwardBy 12 Sep 2007 Edward AlbeePulitzer Prize-winning playwright Edward Albee, who will be represented on several stages this season, will be presented with The Players Edwin Booth Lifetime Achievement Award Sept. 30 at a black-tie event at The Players on Gramercy Park. Timothy Hutton, the Players president, will present Albee with his...
