Word: cinderella
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mess, be a mess! And not many revues can offer two full-length parodies that hit at least as many right notes as wrong ones: a musical-comedy Hamlet (with Dick Sykes), which has the good sense to swipe its music, and a Streetcar-like, Salesman-like version of Cinderella as it might have been directed by Elia Kazan...
Song of Surrender (Paramount) describes the adventures of a backwoods Cinderella (Wanda Hendrix) living in turn-of-the-century New England with a stern husband (Claude Rains) old enough to be her father. The pumpkin which gets her away from it all is a primitive talking-machine and a handful of Caruso recordings which she keeps hidden in a hillside cave for solitary recitals. Her prince charming is a rich city slicker (Macdonald Carey) who whisks her off to a nearby metropolis for an innocent, giddy evening of champagne and waltzes...
...after World War II. The two stars with the brightest shine were born in Surrey and Fifeshire: dark-haired Margot Fonteyn (TIME, April 15, 1946) and red-haired Moira (The Red Shoes) Shearer. The leading male dancer, Robert Helpmann, is somewhat of a foreigner-from Australia. Chief Choreographer Frederick (Cinderella, Facade) Ashton was born in Ecuador of British parents. Some of the ballets had unmistakably British subjects, among them The Rake's Progress (De Valois) and Hamlet (Robert Helpmann...
...Mate for Toodie. Plain Londoners slipped around a corner to drop a sentimental tear into a cool pint, and Mayfair retired to its cocktails to discuss another Cinderella. She was a pretty, Boston-bred...
Tell Me." By June the matter was settled. As soon as she could rent her apartment and pack her trunk, Margaret Clapp hopped a train and went back to her old college, twelve miles west of Boston's Copley Square. Feeling a little like Cinderella, she moved into the big white mansion she had known as the President's House. She had three sitting rooms, a drawing room, two maids, a cook, a chauffeur and two secretaries. Her new domain stretched out over 400 acres of rolling hills. From the air it looked like a series of Gothic...