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...heart-the glorious career of Marjorie Morningstar-she goes to the West gos brownstone flat of her dearest friend, a' fat, good-natured girl with intellectual pretensions named Marsha Zelenko. Marsha lives with her parents in an apartment decorated with Mexican copper plates, Chinese screens and African masks. Papa Zelenko strums the balalaika: Mama Zelenko pounds out Bach on the piano. After Margie scores a hit in a Hunter College production of The Mikado, Marsha gets her a job as dramatic coach at a children's camp in the Adirondacks. Across the lake is an adult-resort camp...
...sudden departure, she later explained that the trip was inspired not by less love of Hollywood but more love of Sweden-and she will return to the U.S. next month. Her urgent mission: to see her fiancé, a Royal Swedish Air Force lieutenant, and to tell her papa, an Upsala businessman who frowns on beauty contests, what this crazy Miss Universe business is all about...
...vastest audiences ever assembled for purposes of unabashed materialism, Gino Prato, the humble Bronx shoemaker, softly read aloud a cablegram from his papa in Italy, roughly translated: "It is enough. Stay where you are." Said Gino: "Because I take my daddy's advice since I was a kid, I accept it now . . . and take...
...skilled Peeping Tom. And now Writer-Director Melville Shavelson adds a predictable turn of the dramatic screw: Hope's bitter sister-in-law protests to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, and Foy and family are haled into court. The children deliver impassioned appeals for Papa, while Papa sums up with a thundering speech in defense of child labor. Visibly moved, the judge sends them all back to the Orpheum Circuit...
...written a scattering of plays, and a book of memoirs. Once, for a charity show, she wrote a play called A Night in the Palace of Prince Esterhazy, with a cast that included Grace Moore, Mrs. Vincent Astor, Mrs. Angier Biddle Duke, Cecil Beaton, Prince Serge Obolensky. and Papa Damrosch himself...