Word: cinderella
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even at 13 Miss McGuire was doing well for herself on the stage. In an Omaha production of A Kiss For Cinderella she tried her best not to hog the show, for the sake of a shy, obscure young Omaha actor named Henry Fonda, who has never forgotten the kindness. But her automatic ability to charm an audience did not save Dorothy McGuire a few hard years. Her skillful replacement of Martha Scott in Our Town went unnoticed; her understudying of Julie Haydon in The Time of Your Life got her nowhere...
...second largest), thrives partly because it is sexy. Its most popular comic strip "Jane," features shapely ladies an inch nearer naked than U.S. comic artists dare draw: the straight news the Mirror prints is generously laved in sob sisters' gravy. (One recent article announced that motherhood is the "Cinderella of the Professions," and urged all young wives to bear at least four children...
...long lapse of years the fragrance of one name still clings to the Empire more insistently than any other-Maude Adams. Her own name always linked with Barrie's, she charmed a whole generation in The Little Minister, Peter Pan, What Every Woman Knows, A Kiss for Cinderella...
...inevitable result-and creator-of Cinderella. And the American Cinderella, in fiction and in fact, is a perversion of the original myth. In that story the point was that the Prince found his proper wife in the difficult and lowly circumstances which had made her proper. In the U.S. version "we have enshrined, not the earnest search of the Prince, which is a positive force in the story, but the girl's reward. . . . There is, the American legend, tells [her] a good-looking man with dough, who will put an end to the onerous tedium of making a living...
With Something for the Boys a smash hit, Porter will start on a new Michael Todd musical about Cinderella. The lead, he regrets, is not quite right for Ethel...