Rosina Lhévinne and Van Cliburn
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Pianist Van Cliburn is shown rehearsing with his teacher Rosina Lhévinne. She became his instructor at The Juilliard School and propelled him to fame in 1958 with his win in the inaugural International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. The win caught the attention of the nation and he was given a ticker tape parade in New York and shared the top of the charts with the likes of the soundtrack to South Pacific and Johnny Mathis. |
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Sadie Thompson
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September 21, 1944 |
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Sadie Thompson
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circa 1944 |
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Show Time
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September 17, 1942 |
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Silvia Weld
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May 26, 1942 |
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Sing Out Sweet Land (part of series: American History In Song)
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November 1944 |
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Something For The Boys
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December 17, 1942 |
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Sons o' Fun
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May 1, 1943 |
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Sophia Loren as a Fashion Model
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Spring Again
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October 26, 1941 |
A successful comedy directed by Guthrie McClintic featuring Grace George and C. Aubrey Smith. The plot tells of a long suffering wife subjected to constant stories of her husband's Civil War hero father at Shiloh who decides to recount his families real true story as a dramatized radio serial. |
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Storm Operation
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November 24, 1943 |
A Maxwell Anderson play produced the The Playwrights' Company. Anderson spent significant time on the North African front with General Eisenhower researching for the work, which was ultimately panned by critics and ran only 23 performances. Oddly, the play was selected by the Burns Mantle annual as one of the season's 10 best plays. |
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Stovepipe Hat
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May 12, 1944 |
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Street Scene
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circa 1946 |
Images from the Philadelphia rehearsal for the operatic version of the play based on the Pulitzer Prize winning book by Elmer Rice. Music by Kurt Weill and lyrics by the well known Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes, with Weill winning the Tony Award for Best Original Score. Set design by Jo Mielziner. The story takes place on a New York sidewalk and street and follows several low to middle class characters through various urban struggles, resulting in epic tragedy. |
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Sue Fuller
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September 1969 |
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Summer Theatre 1946
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circa 1946 |
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Teahouse Of The August Moon
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April 18, 1955 |
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The Father
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Grace Kelly, Raymond Massey, and Mady Christians star. |
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The Great Big Doorstep
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October 27, 1942 |
Dorothy Gish and Louis Calhern head an impoverished Cajun family caught in a Louisiana flood, when the doorstep of a patrician mansion floats on to their property. The doorstep installed at the entrance to their shack fuels their desires for a grander life, in this comedy by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett. |
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The Great Big Doorstep
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November 11, 1942 |
Dorothy Gish and Louis Calhern head an impoverished Cajun family caught in a Louisiana flood, when the doorstep of a patrician mansion floats on to their property. The doorstep installed at the entrance to their shack fuels their desires for a grander life, in this comedy by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett. |
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The Late George Apley
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circa 1944 |
A George S. Kaufman comedy hit starring Leo G. Carroll as the title character, an ultra-conservative resisting change in 1912 getting by with his wit and a drink. Based on the Pulitzer Prize novel by John P. Marquand and produced by Max Gordon, the play was universally well received by the critics and playgoers. |
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The Late George Apley
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circa 1944 |
A George S. Kaufman comedy hit starring Leo G. Carroll as the title character, an ultra-conservative resisting change in 1912 getting by with his wit and a drink. Based on the Pulitzer Prize novel by John P. Marquand and produced by Max Gordon, the play was universally well received by the critics and playgoers. |
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The Littlest Revue
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May 17, 1956 |
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The More the Merrier
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September 26, 1941 |
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The Patriots
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January 21, 1943 |
The first play produced by The Playwrights' Company for a playwright who was not a founding member of the group. Written by Sidney S. Kingsley and starring his wife, Madge Evans. The play explores the philosophic differences between Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton on the future of the United States. |
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The Rugged Path
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circa 1945 |
Written by Robert E. Sherwood, directed by Garson Kanin, set design by Jo Mielziner, and starring Spencer Tracy. Tracy plays a newspaper man who overshoots his boundries as an editor, only to escape the fallout by joining the Navy and meeting his demise on an island at the hands of Japanese forces. |
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The Russian People
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December 12, 1942 |
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The Searching Wind
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March 29, 1944 |
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The Student Prince
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June 10, 1943 |
An operetta revival with music by Sigmund Romberg and directed by Jacob J. Shubert, featuring perennial Shubert favorite Everett Marshall as Dr. Engel, Frank Hornaday as Prince Karl Franz, and Barbara Scully as Kathie. The show was toured endlessly in revivals by the Shuberts, who considered it a guaranteed moneymaker. A young Prince falls in love with a barmaid whilst studying at Heidelberg with his tutor, Dr. Engel. |
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The Sun Field
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November 14, 1942 |
The short-lived baseball comedy by Milton Lazarus, based on the novel by Heywood Broun. The flop ran for 5 performances and was called by one critic, "A lengthy anecdote." |
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The Tempest
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January 12, 1945 |
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The Tempest
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January 18, 1945 |
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The Three Sisters
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November 26, 1942 |
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The Whole World Over
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March 14, 1947 |
Joseph Buloff and Uta Hagen star as father and daughter in this amiable boy-meets-girl comedy, all crammed into a Moscow apartment during the Russian housing shortage. Directed by Harold Clurman. The show also featured Sanford Meisner, who later went on to found the well-known Meisner Technique of acting. |
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The World's Full Of Girls
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November 1943 |
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Theatre
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November 15, 1941 |
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There Shall Be No Night
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March 27, 1940 |
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This is the Army
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circa 1942 |
Irving Berlin's revue, written as a benefit for the U.S. Army Emergency Relief Fund. The play was turned into a film version in 1943, successfully raising $9.5 million, becoming the most profitable film of that year. All of the cast and production team of the Broadway show were former or current members of the armed forces. |
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Three's A Family
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April 22, 1943 |
Written by the husband and wife team of Phoebe Ephron and Henry Ephron, the parents of Nora Ephron. A three act farce about an extended family crammed into a small Manhattan Upper West Side apartment. The play ran for 497 performances, well into the next season. |
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Tin Top Valley
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March 3, 1947 |
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Tomorrow the World/Elissa Landi
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August 30, 1943 |
A major hit drama about a well-meaning typical American family that adopts a Nazi youth who attempts to indoctrinate them toward his warped values. The play made stars of Skippy Homeier as the 12 year old Nazi youth and Joyce Van Patten as young American daughter Patricia Frame. Written by James Gow and Arnaud D'Usseau. |
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Two On An Island
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January 13, 1940 |
The Elmer Rice comedy about a boy from Ohio who meets a girl from New Hampshire while trying to find success on the island of Manhatten. The show featured a very large cast of over 90 performers including Betty Field and John Craven as the young lovers. Set design by Jo Mielziner. The show ran for 96 performances. |
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Watch On The Rhine
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Opened May 12th, 1941 at the Martin Beek Theatre in New York City. |
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While The Sun Shines
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September 8, 1944 |
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Wine Women And Song
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September 26, 1942 |
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Winged Victory
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October 8, 1943 |
A poignant play by Moss Hart with an enormous cast of armed forces men, and uniquely, women. The show was written by order of General Arnold of the U.S. Army, with all proceeds benefiting the Army Relief Fund of 1943. It told the story of the growth of the Air Force, following six soldiers from civilian life to battlefield flight. Hart traveled 28,000 miles with Air Force men to research the project. It later became a 20th Century Fox film, retaining most of the original cast members. |
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Yankee Point
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November 7, 1942 |
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Ziegfeld Follies
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circa 1943 |
Upon the death of Florenz Ziegfeld in 1931, his widow Billy Burke sold the rights to the valuable phrase "Ziegfeld Follies" to her husband's long time rivals, the Shuberts, who staged editions of the follies in 1934, 1936, 1943, and 1957. This edition of the elaborate musical revue starred Milton Berle, Ilona Massey, and Arthur Treacher. |
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