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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Brock Pemberton, 64, Broadway producer who put on the early plays of Zona Gale (Miss Lulu Bett), Sidney Howard (Swords), Maxwell Anderson (White Desert) and Preston Sturges (Strictly Dishonorable); of a heart attack; in Manhattan. A Kansas-born onetime reporter for William Allen White's Emporia Gazette (1908-10), Pemberton first introduced to theatergoers such stars as Walter Huston, Miriam Hopkins, Claudette Colbert and Fredric March. His biggest success came late in life (1944), when he produced Broadway's fifth longest run, Harvey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 20, 1950 | 3/20/1950 | See Source »

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