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Remains To Be Seen (play)
''Remains to Be Seen'' is a play written by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse. Producer Leland Hayward opened it on Broadway at the Morosco Theatre on October 3, 1951. Bretaigne Windust directed the production, which ran for 199 performances. The play is a comedy about the investigation of the murder of an anti-pornography crusader. Following his death, various characters gather at his Park Avenue apartment, including his niece Jody, his attorney, his butler, the apartment building's young janitor, and a doctor. In the process, the attorney falls in love with Jody, but she chooses to leave with the janitor instead. Cast and characters The characters and opening night cast from the Broadway production are given below: Adaptations Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer adapted the play as a film of the same name in 1953, directed by Don Weis. June Allyson June Allyson (born Eleanor Geisman; October 7, 1917 – July 8, 2006) was an American stage, film, and television actress. Allyson began he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Howard Lindsay
Howard Lindsay, born Herman Nelke, (March 29, 1889 – February 11, 1968) was an American playwright, librettist, director, actor and theatrical producer. He is best known for his writing work as part of the collaboration of Lindsay and Crouse, and for his performance, with his wife Dorothy Stickney, in the long-running play '' Life with Father''. Biography Lindsay graduated from Boston Latin School in 1907. He was an actor and director before turning to writing plays. He played the role of "Father" in '' Life with Father'' on Broadway in 1939. Together with Russel Crouse, Lindsay won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for the 1945 play ''State of the Union'', which was adapted into a film directed by Frank Capra three years later. On October 5, 1947, Lindsay became the master of ceremonies of the ''Ford Theatre'' radio program. The 1957 Rodgers and Hammerstein television musical ''Cinderella'', recently revived by PBS, featured Lindsay and Stickney playing the roles of the King ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Lipson
Paul R. Lipson (December 23, 1913 – January 3, 1996) was an American stage actor. Early life Lipson was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Abraham Lipson and Elizabeth Richtol, and grew up in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. He attended The Ohio State University and served in the Air Force during World War II. Stage career After his military service, Lipson performed in touring productions, including ''Dangerous Woman'', with ZaSu Pitts and ''Joan of Lorraine'' with Diana Barrymore. At the time of his death, he had played the role of Tevye in ''Fiddler on the Roof'' in more performances than any other actor, clocking over 2,000 performances as Zero Mostel's Broadway understudy, and later performing the lead role in his own right. Because he had appeared for some time in a Las Vegas production that played 12 performances a week instead of the eight on Broadway, by the time Fiddler became the longest-running show in 1972, he had appeared in more performances than had played on Bro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Broadway Plays
Broadway may refer to: Theatre * Broadway Theatre (other) * Broadway theatre, theatrical productions in professional theatres near Broadway, Manhattan, New York City, U.S. ** Broadway (Manhattan), the street ** Broadway Theatre (53rd Street), one theatre on Broadway Other arts, entertainment, and media Films * ''Broadway'' (1929 film), based on the play by George Abbott and Philip Dunning * ''Broadway'' (1942 film), with George Raft, Pat O'Brien, Janet Blair and Broderick Crawford Music Groups and labels * Broadway (band), an American post-hardcore band * Broadway (disco band), an American disco band from the 1970s * Broadway Records (other) Albums * ''Broadway'' (album), a 1964 Johnny Mathis album released in 2012 * ''Broadway'', a 2011 album by Kika Edgar Songs * "Broadway" (Goo Goo Dolls song), a song from the album ''Dizzy Up the Girl'' (1998) * "Broadway" (Sébastien Tellier song), a song by Sébastien Tellier from his album ''Politics'' (2004) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Plays Adapted Into Films
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1951 Plays
Events January * January 4 – Korean War: Third Battle of Seoul – Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul for the second time (having lost the Second Battle of Seoul in September 1950). * January 9 – The Government of the United Kingdom announces abandonment of the Tanganyika groundnut scheme for the cultivation of peanuts in the Tanganyika Territory, with the writing off of £36.5M debt. * January 11 – In the U.S., a top secret report is delivered to U.S. President Truman by his National Security Resources Board, urging Truman to expand the Korean War by launching "a global offensive against communism" with sustained bombing of Red China and diplomatic moves to establish "moral justification" for a U.S. nuclear attack on the Soviet Union. The report will not not be declassified until 1978. * January 15 – In a criminal court in West Germany, Ilse Koch, The "Witch of Buchenwald", wife of the commandant of the Buchenwald concentration camp, is sentenced to li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
June Allyson
June Allyson (born Eleanor Geisman; October 7, 1917 – July 8, 2006) was an American stage, film, and television actress. Allyson began her career in 1937 as a dancer in short subject films and on Broadway in 1938. She signed with MGM in 1943, and rose to fame the following year in '' Two Girls and a Sailor''. Allyson's "girl next door" image was solidified during the mid-1940s when she was paired with actor Van Johnson in six films. In 1951, she won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress for her performance in ''Too Young to Kiss''. From 1959 to 1961, she hosted and occasionally starred in her own anthology series, '' The DuPont Show with June Allyson'', which aired on CBS from 1959 to 1961. In the 1970s, she returned to the stage, starring in '' Forty Carats'' and '' No, No, Nanette''. In 1982, Allyson released her autobiography ''June Allyson by June Allyson'', and continued her career with guest starring roles on television and occasional film appearances. She later es ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don Weis
Don Weis (May 13, 1922 – July 26, 2000) was an American film and television director. Biography Weis was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin to Emma (née Wiener; 1889–1971) and Meyer Weis (1886-1942). He graduated from the University of Southern California where he studied film. During World War II, Weis served in the Air Force as a film technician. After the war, he began working at MGM directing such films as ''Bannerline'' (1951), ''Just This Once'' (1952), ''You for Me'' (1952) and ''The Affairs of Dobie Gillis'' (1953). Weis began directing for television in 1954 and worked on such series as ''M*A*S*H (TV series), M*A*S*H'', ''Ironside (TV series), Ironside'', ''It Takes a Thief (1968 TV series), It Takes a Thief'', ''The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series), Twilight Zone'', ''Alfred Hitchcock Presents'' (1955), ''Fireside Theatre, The Jane Wyman Show'', ''The Andy Griffith Show'', ''Happy Days'', ''Starsky and Hutch'', ''CHiPs'', ''The Courtship of Eddie's Father (TV series), Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Remains To Be Seen (film)
''Remains to Be Seen'' is a 1953 crime film, crime musical film, musical comedy film directed by Don Weis and starring June Allyson, Van Johnson and Louis Calhern. It is based on the 1951 Broadway theatre, Broadway play ''Remains to Be Seen (play), Remains to Be Seen'' by Russel Crouse and Howard Lindsay. P.S. The End is Not Movie Name. Plot A girl vocalist and her apartment manager get mixed up in a creepy Park Avenue murder and find themselves facing danger at every turn. Cast * June Allyson as Jody Revere * Van Johnson as Waldo Williams * Louis Calhern as Benjamin Goodman * Angela Lansbury as Valeska Chauvel * John Beal (actor), John Beal as Dr. Glenson * Dorothy Dandridge as herself * Barry Kelley as Lt. O'Flair * Sammy White (actor), Sammy White as Ben * Kathryn Card as Mrs. West * Paul Harvey (actor), Paul Harvey as Mr. Bennett * Helene Millard as Mrs. Bennett * Peter Chong (actor), Peter Chong as Ling Tan * Charles Lane (actor, born 1905), Charles Lane as Delapp, exam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (also known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, commonly shortened to MGM or MGM Studios) is an American Film production, film and television production and film distribution, distribution company headquartered in Beverly Hills, California. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer was founded on April 17, 1924, and has been owned by the Amazon MGM Studios subsidiary of Amazon (company), Amazon since 2022. MGM was formed by Marcus Loew by combining Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures and Louis B. Mayer Pictures into one company. It hired a number of well-known actors as contract players—its slogan was "more stars than there are in heaven"—and soon became Hollywood's most prestigious filmmaking company, producing popular musical films and winning many Academy Awards. MGM also owned film studios, movie lots, movie theaters and technical production facilities. Its most prosperous era, from 1926 to 1959, was bracketed by two productions of ''Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl Lukas
Karl Lukas (born Karol Louis Lukasiak; August 21, 1919 – January 16, 1995) was an American film and television actor. He was best known for playing Private Stash Kadowski in ''The Phil Silvers Show''. Biography Lukas guest-starred in numerous television programs including ''The Andy Griffith Show'', ''Gunsmoke'', ''Bonanza'', ''The Rockford Files'', ''The Dick Van Dyke Show'', ''Rawhide'', ''Wagon Train'', ''The Beverly Hillbillies'', ''Alfred Hitchcock Presents'', '' The F.B.I.'', ''Petticoat Junction'', and ''The Monkees''. He also appeared in a few episodes of ''Family Affair'', ''Bewitched'', and ''Mister Ed''. Lukas died on January 16, 1995 of heart failure in Westlake Village, California, at the age of 75. He was buried in San Fernando Mission Cemetery The San Fernando Mission Cemetery, a significant part of the Mission Hills community in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles, is steeped in history. It stands adjacent to the iconic San Fernando Mission, also known as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Lockwood
Alexander Lockwood (May 5, 1902 – January 25, 1990) was an American actor. He appeared in numerous films and television shows throughout the 1930s to the 1980s. Biography Lockwood was born in Slezská Ostrava, now Czech Republic, in 1902. Lockwood began his acting career in film in 1938, appearing in films like '' Just Off Broadway'', '' Sherlock Holmes in Washington'' and '' Jigsaw'' during the 1940s. During the 1950s and 1960s he appeared in films like ''The Wrong Man'' and '' The Invisible Boy'' with Richard Eyer. He also appeared in '' The Story of Mankind'' and '' Monster on the Campus''. He also acted in films like ''The Tarnished Angels'' and '' Edge of Eternity''with Cornel Wilde and Cary Grant during the late 1950s. During the 1960s he appeared in films like ''Beauty and the Beast'' with Joyce Taylor and Walk on the Wild Side with Laurence Harvey and The Monkey's Uncle with Tommy Kirk during the 1960s. During the 1970s he appeared in films like ''Duel'', ''Fami ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ossie Davis
Ossie Davis (born Raiford Chatman Davis; December 18, 1917 – February 4, 2005) was an American actor, Film director, director, writer, and activist. He was married to Ruby Dee, with whom he frequently performed, until his death. He received numerous accolades including an Emmy, a Grammy and a Writers Guild of America Award as well as nominations for four additional Emmy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, and Tony Award. Davis was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1994 and received the National Medal of Arts in 1995, Kennedy Center Honors in 2004.Lifetime Honors – National Medal of Arts Davis started his career in theatre acting with the Rose McClendon, Ross McClendon Players in the 1940s. He made his Broadway (theatre), Broadway debut acting in the post-World War II play ''Jeb (play ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
