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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Frederick Loewe wrote that musical, The Life of the Party, in twelve days, and it ran nine weeks in Detroit. What's Up (1943) was their first on Broadway. The Day Before Spring (1945) won lower-middling reviews and closed after five months. Then 1947's Brigadoon spread the L. & L. tartan down Shubert Alley. In 1951 they achieved a sluggish eight months' run with Paint Your Wagon, a mining-camp western with an awkward book and a rousing score. Lerner, meanwhile, had been moonlighting on his partnership with Loewe, won an Oscar for the movie, An American in Paris...
...capital for Brigadoon, they had to go through the show more than 50 times at auditions for prospective backers; Fair Lady was sold without a single audition; now they just pick up the phone. CBS has put up the entire $480,000 cost of Camelot, and money now follows L. & L. wherever they go. They have yachts in the Mediterranean and villas on the Riviera. Lerner has a town house in Manhattan, and Loewe an airy glass pleasure-dome in Palm Springs, Calif. Each owns an $18,000 Rolls-Royce convertible; Loewe's is "black pearl" grey and Lerner...
...more intriguing patterns in L. & L.'s lives: when Lerner married Marion Bell, Loewe simultaneously started an affair with her understudy; the affair (eleven years) lasted longer than the marriage (two years). Explains an old friend of Lerner's: "Alan thinks he has to marry and have children with any woman he gets involved with." As for Fritz, he has been separated from his wife for eleven years, has made a sizable settlement: $135,000 down and $10,000 a year for life "her life," he explains wryly, "not mine." He has no children, says he does not want...
...Collaborators. No excess of wives, girl friends, possessions or noise has ever seriously interfered with L. & L.'s work. The composer-librettist relationship can produce some extraordinary cases of love-hate, as in the case of Gilbert and Sullivan. Professionally, Lerner and Loewe are marvelously meshed, and Fritz even goes so far as to say of Alan, "I love him." But friendship is not really necessary for artistic partnership or for marriage...
...radio station three times a week to castigate the union's unyielding stand. The dormant Shoshone County Anti-Communist Association awakened, charged that the union was Communist-led. The Mine & Mill workers were ousted from the old C.I.O. in 1950 for Communist leanings, but Mine & Mill Negotiator James L. Daugherty now denies the charge. Why then had he refused to sign a non-Communist affidavit in 1947 as then required by the Taft-Hartley Law? Because, explained Daugherty, he had been instructed not to by the union he was then representing...