19 Tuesday Apr 2022
Posted in Film, Marilyn Monroe, Television, Theatre
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Actors Studio, Alvah Bessie, Arthur Miller, Billy Wilder, Bus Stop, Charles Lederer, Clash By Night, Death of a Salesman, Edward G. Robinson, Elia Kazan, Lee Strasberg, Marilyn Monroe, Marlon Brando, Nehemiah Persoff, Some Like It Hot, The Sex Symbol, The Symbol, Tony Curtis
The great character actor Nehemiah Persoff, whose many roles included the mobster ‘Little Bonaparte’ in Some Like It Hot, has died at the grand old age of 102. Continue reading
12 Wednesday Jan 2022
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Actors Studio, Arthur Miller, Augusta Miller, Conversation Piece, Isidore Miller, Joan Copeland, Lee Strasberg, Marilyn Monroe, Middle of the Night, Paddy Chayefsky, Rebecca Miller, The Goddess
Joan Maxine Miller was born to Augusta Barnett, a schoolteacher and housewife, and Isidore Miller, a Polish immigrant and clothing manufacturer, in Manhattan in 1922. She was their youngest child and only daughter, joining her older brothers, nine-year-old Kermit and six-year-old Arthur. While Arthur was his mother’s favourite, Isidore doted on little Joan. “After waiting so long for a girl,” she recalled, “there I was, this pretty angel … I was like a doll.” Continue reading
30 Tuesday Nov 2021
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Dick Tracy, I'm Breathless, Madonna, Mandy Patinkin, More, Oscars, Send in the Clowns, Sooner or Later, Stephen Sondheim, Warren Beatty, What Can You Lose
When the news broke on Friday, November 26, that the legendary Broadway composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim had died aged 91, the world’s theatrical community went into mourning. That evening, fans lined up outside Marie’s Crisis Café, a piano bar in Greenwich Village, to sing and grieve together. On Sunday, crowds gathered for a tribute performance in Times Square, and in London’s West End, theatre lights were dimmed. Continue reading
14 Tuesday Jan 2020
Posted in Books, Film, Marilyn Monroe, Television, Theatre
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After The Fall, Arthur Miller, Arthur Miller - Writer, Bobby Miller, Carl Rollyson, Documentaries, Documentary, Elia Kazan, Inge Morath, Jane Miller, Marilyn Monroe, Mary Slattery, Maureen Dowd, Rebecca Miller, The Misfits
Rebecca Miller, daughter of American playwright Arthur Miller and his third wife, Austrian-born photographer Inge Morath, is a novelist and filmmaker whose works include The Ballad of Jack and Rose and The Private Lives of Pippa Lee. She has directed a stage revival of her father’s play, After the Fall, and her handful of acting credits include a minor role in a television adaptation of An American Clock. She also met her future husband, actor Daniel Day-Lewis, on the set of another Miller classic, The Crucible (1996.) Continue reading
07 Thursday Nov 2019
Posted in Anniversaries, Jeanne Eagels, Theatre
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As noted in the Playbill Vault, Jeanne Eagels began her legendary Broadway run as Sadie Thompson, “a prostitute at odds with a jungle missionary in Rain, primarily based on a W. Somerset Maugham quick story,” on this day, November 7, in 1922. We’re now just three years away from its centenary. Continue reading
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