Hollywood actor and singer who created the role of ‘Babe’ Williams in the Broadway musical The Pajama Game
Janis Paige, who has died aged 101, shone in films and numerous television shows, but her greatest triumph came in the Richard Adler/Jerry Ross Tony award-winning Broadway musical The Pajama Game in 1954.
Paige created the role of “Babe” Williams, the spirited leader of the union grievance committee at the Sleep Tite pajama factory, vigorously belting out the numbers I’m Not at All in Love, Small Talk and There Once Was a Man. This resulted in further stage leads for Paige as strong-willed women, to which her singing voice and vibrant personality were perfectly suited. She replaced Angela Lansbury on Broadway in Mame in 1968, and toured in shows including Gypsy, Applause, Annie Get Your Gun and Guys and Dolls.
Janis Paige, who has died aged 101, shone in films and numerous television shows, but her greatest triumph came in the Richard Adler/Jerry Ross Tony award-winning Broadway musical The Pajama Game in 1954.
Paige created the role of “Babe” Williams, the spirited leader of the union grievance committee at the Sleep Tite pajama factory, vigorously belting out the numbers I’m Not at All in Love, Small Talk and There Once Was a Man. This resulted in further stage leads for Paige as strong-willed women, to which her singing voice and vibrant personality were perfectly suited. She replaced Angela Lansbury on Broadway in Mame in 1968, and toured in shows including Gypsy, Applause, Annie Get Your Gun and Guys and Dolls.
- 6/5/2024
- by Ronald Bergan
- The Guardian - Film News
This year’s Tonys will be held on June 16, so the American Theatre Wing will likely be announcing its Lifetime Achievement Award recipient in the near future. Who do you think should take home this prestigious trophy, which honors an individual’s body of work? It has gone to veteran stage performers, directors, choreographers, playwrights, songwriters, producers and designers. In some years we get multiple recipients.
Last year these honors went to actor Joel Grey and composer John Kander. The following living male Broadway vets have also received this award in the past and thus won’t be chosen again: Paul Gemignani, Alan Ayckbourn, Athol Fugard, Marshall W. Mason, Tommy Tune, James Earl Jones, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Harold Wheeler.
Here are 10 possibilities featured in our poll below, all accomplished men over the age of 65. Vote to let us know who you’d like to see honored. And take a...
Last year these honors went to actor Joel Grey and composer John Kander. The following living male Broadway vets have also received this award in the past and thus won’t be chosen again: Paul Gemignani, Alan Ayckbourn, Athol Fugard, Marshall W. Mason, Tommy Tune, James Earl Jones, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Harold Wheeler.
Here are 10 possibilities featured in our poll below, all accomplished men over the age of 65. Vote to let us know who you’d like to see honored. And take a...
- 3/26/2024
- by Jeffrey Kare
- Gold Derby
Imagine the 96th Academy Awards ceremony opening with an epic “Barbie” musical medley.
According to Puck’s “What I’m Hearing” newsletter, The Academy wants it to happen. Who foots the bill on the production is another story. Typically the studios are responsible, but as Matthew Belloni writes, “Warners is selling off movies to raise money these days. By the time the Oscars arrive, marketing and awards budgets are spent, so who knows?”
But with three major songs vying for awards recognition — Dua Lipa’s disco pop ode “Dance the Night,” Ryan Gosling’s climactic centerpiece “I’m Just Ken” and Billie Eilish’s ballad “What Was I Made For?” — “Barbie” is the obvious pick for an extravagant Oscars musical number.
Director Greta Gerwig has been out campaigning for the three songs, which will all likely make the original song shortlist next next month, but only two songs from a given film can land nominations,...
According to Puck’s “What I’m Hearing” newsletter, The Academy wants it to happen. Who foots the bill on the production is another story. Typically the studios are responsible, but as Matthew Belloni writes, “Warners is selling off movies to raise money these days. By the time the Oscars arrive, marketing and awards budgets are spent, so who knows?”
But with three major songs vying for awards recognition — Dua Lipa’s disco pop ode “Dance the Night,” Ryan Gosling’s climactic centerpiece “I’m Just Ken” and Billie Eilish’s ballad “What Was I Made For?” — “Barbie” is the obvious pick for an extravagant Oscars musical number.
Director Greta Gerwig has been out campaigning for the three songs, which will all likely make the original song shortlist next next month, but only two songs from a given film can land nominations,...
- 11/17/2023
- by Jazz Tangcay
- Variety Film + TV
Happy Birthday, Charles Strouse Strouse's first Broadway musical was the 1960 hit Bye Bye Birdie, with lyrics by Lee Adams, who would become his long time collaborator. Following this was Golden Boy 1964, also with Adams, starring Sammy Davis, Jr. and It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Superman 1966, based on the popular comic strip which introduced the song 'You've Got Possibilities' sung by Linda Lavin. In 1970, Applause starring Lauren Bacall, with book by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, and lyrics by Adams won Strouse his second Tony Award. In 1977, Strouse adapted another comic strip for the stage, creating the hit Annie, which garnered him his third Tony Award and two Grammy Awards. Other Strouse musicals include Charlie and Algernon 1979, Dance a Little Closer 1983, with lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner, Rags 1986, Nick amp Nora 1993, and An American Tragedy 1995, with lyrics by David Shaber.
- 6/7/2016
- by Stage Tube
- BroadwayWorld.com
Transferring films to Broadway has become routine, and the same is true for popular plays and musicals that were originally set on Broadway and made their way to the silver screen. Recent screen-to-stage transfers include “Waitress,” starring Jessie Mueller, “American Psycho,” “Finding Neverland,” and “School of Rock;” all of which are currently playing the Great White Way (“American Psycho” is still in previews). Just last week NBC announced it will be staging a live television production of the 1992, hit Aaron Sorkin film “A Few Good Men”; a Broadway adaptation may not be too far off. The following 12 productions are just a handful of many notable Broadway productions based on feature films. “Applause”Lauren Bacall stepped in the shoes of aging actor Margo Channing in the Broadway musical adaptation of “All About Eve” in 1970. Similar to the 1950 film, “Applause” is also based on Mary Orr’s short story, “The Wisdom of Eve.
- 4/6/2016
- backstage.com
If anyone loves the theater...it’s theater folks! Over the years creatives have written some incredible musicals and melodies about what it’s like to be in this business. Here are 10 (in no particular order) that you should add to your Broadway playlist! “Applause” from “Applause”Believe it or not, this Betty Comden/Adolph Green musical has yet to be revived on the Great White Way—but its grandiose number “Applause” lives on! What performer doesn’t thrive from the sweet, sweet sound of audience cheer? Notable LyricsWhen I was 8I was in a school playI’ll never forget itI had one line to sayMy big moment came, I said, “What ho, the prince!”My sister applaudedI’ve been hooked ever since “As If We Never Said Goodbye” from “Sunset Boulevard”A show-stopping number from this Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, “As If We Never Said Goodbye” is just one...
- 8/20/2015
- backstage.com
Happy Birthday, Charles Strouse Strouse's first Broadway musical was the 1960 hit Bye Bye Birdie, with lyrics by Lee Adams, who would become his long time collaborator. Following this was Golden Boy 1964, also with Adams, starring Sammy Davis, Jr. and It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Superman 1966, based on the popular comic strip which introduced the song 'You've Got Possibilities' sung by Linda Lavin. In 1970, Applause starring Lauren Bacall, with book by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, and lyrics by Adams won Strouse his second Tony Award. In 1977, Strouse adapted another comic strip for the stage, creating the hit Annie, which garnered him his third Tony Award and two Grammy Awards. Other Strouse musicals include Charlie and Algernon 1979, Dance a Little Closer 1983, with lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner, Rags 1986, Nick amp Nora 1993, and An American Tragedy 1995, with lyrics by David Shaber.
- 6/7/2015
- by Stage Tube
- BroadwayWorld.com
Broadway theatres will temporarily dim their lights in tribute to the late Lauren Bacall.
Bacall, who died earlier this week at the age of 89, won Tony Awards for her starring roles in Applause and Woman of the Year.
Lauren Bacall: 13 classic photos of Hollywood's Golden Age icon
Bacall also appeared in Waiting in the Wings; Goodbye, Charlie and Cactus Flower.
In memory of the actress, Broadway theatres in New York will dim their lights for one minute at 7.45pm on Friday, August 15.
Broadway League executive director Charlotte St Martin said that Bacall had a "distinct presence on stage and screen".
"Along with her talent and memorable performances, her timeless beauty and witty intelligence will be remembered.
"Our thoughts are with her family, friends and fans," St Martin added.
Barbra Streisand is one of a number of Hollywood celebrities to have paid tribute to the late actress.
Streisand, who worked...
Bacall, who died earlier this week at the age of 89, won Tony Awards for her starring roles in Applause and Woman of the Year.
Lauren Bacall: 13 classic photos of Hollywood's Golden Age icon
Bacall also appeared in Waiting in the Wings; Goodbye, Charlie and Cactus Flower.
In memory of the actress, Broadway theatres in New York will dim their lights for one minute at 7.45pm on Friday, August 15.
Broadway League executive director Charlotte St Martin said that Bacall had a "distinct presence on stage and screen".
"Along with her talent and memorable performances, her timeless beauty and witty intelligence will be remembered.
"Our thoughts are with her family, friends and fans," St Martin added.
Barbra Streisand is one of a number of Hollywood celebrities to have paid tribute to the late actress.
Streisand, who worked...
- 8/14/2014
- Digital Spy
Update August 14: Broadway will go dark: The marquees of Broadway theatres in New York will be dimmed in memory of Lauren Bacall on Friday, August 15, at exactly 7:45 p.m. for one minute.
One of the leading ladies of Hollywood’s Golden Age died today after a stroke. The sultry, fiery Lauren Bacall was 89. MSNBC’s Thomas Robert broke the news in a tweet, and the Bogart estate has confirmed it. She was famous for starring — onscreeen and off — with Humphrey Bogart in such 1940s classics as The Big Sleep, To Have and Have Not, Dark Passage and Key Largo. In one of Hollywood’s great love stories, they married in 1945 and stayed together until his death in 1957. Four years later she married another acting legend, Jason Robards Jr.; they divorced in 1969.
Related: Reactions to Lauren Bacall’s Death
Bacall worked in films consistently through the mid-1960s and...
One of the leading ladies of Hollywood’s Golden Age died today after a stroke. The sultry, fiery Lauren Bacall was 89. MSNBC’s Thomas Robert broke the news in a tweet, and the Bogart estate has confirmed it. She was famous for starring — onscreeen and off — with Humphrey Bogart in such 1940s classics as The Big Sleep, To Have and Have Not, Dark Passage and Key Largo. In one of Hollywood’s great love stories, they married in 1945 and stayed together until his death in 1957. Four years later she married another acting legend, Jason Robards Jr.; they divorced in 1969.
Related: Reactions to Lauren Bacall’s Death
Bacall worked in films consistently through the mid-1960s and...
- 8/14/2014
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline
“Just be careful. She doesn’t suffer fools.” That was the advice a publicist gave me just before they put me on the phone with Lauren Bacall about 20 years ago. She was promoting a TNT movie, The Portrait, and as a writer-producer on The Arsenio Hall Show I had persuaded the powers that be to book her on the show — even if, on the surface, she wasn’t the typical kind of contemporary guest we often had on the show. Quite frankly, I just wanted to meet Lauren Bacall, to just hear that legendary sultry voice on the other end of the phone. So I set about doing the pre-interview and apparently passed the “no fools” test because I found her to be a pussycat.
Related: Lauren Bacall: A Life In Pictures
Still it wasn’t like Arsenio (or even our studio and TV audience) was exactly the kind of fan I was,...
Related: Lauren Bacall: A Life In Pictures
Still it wasn’t like Arsenio (or even our studio and TV audience) was exactly the kind of fan I was,...
- 8/13/2014
- by Pete Hammond
- Deadline
Lauren Bacall admitted that her marriage to Humphrey Bogart, one of the great leading men of Hollywood, probably hampered her own movie career - to many directors, she was simply Bogie’s wife. She felt she never really came into her own until she was transformed overnight into a Broadway star in the 1970 musical Applause - and she won even more unexpected applause as the author, without ghostwriter, of a best-selling, highly regarded memoir, Lauren Bacall: By Myself, which won a National Book Award in 1980. But if she never reached the top tier of Hollywood legends, Bacall, who died at 89 in Manhattan on Tuesday,...
- 8/13/2014
- by Tom Gliatto
- PEOPLE.com
New York – She had it all. Just like Bogie and, well, her. Lauren “Betty” Bacall accidentally became a movie actress, but that accident led to stardom, two marriages to famous actors and a long life of award winning performances. The 89-year-old star died of a stroke in New York City on August 12th.
She thought her marriage to Humphrey Bogart – who was 26 years older than her – would be her epitaph, but Bacall had so much more going for her through her career, she forged ahead and established her own identity. In that second act, it was the stage that became her main calling, as she won Tony Awards for her lead performances in “Applause” and “Woman of the Year” on Broadway. Her husky voiced, independent style was broadly appealing, especially in her early co-starring roles with Bogart.
Bogie and Bacall in ‘The Big Sleep’
Photo credit: Warner Home Video
Lauren Bacall...
She thought her marriage to Humphrey Bogart – who was 26 years older than her – would be her epitaph, but Bacall had so much more going for her through her career, she forged ahead and established her own identity. In that second act, it was the stage that became her main calling, as she won Tony Awards for her lead performances in “Applause” and “Woman of the Year” on Broadway. Her husky voiced, independent style was broadly appealing, especially in her early co-starring roles with Bogart.
Bogie and Bacall in ‘The Big Sleep’
Photo credit: Warner Home Video
Lauren Bacall...
- 8/13/2014
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Lauren Bacall admitted that her marriage to Humphrey Bogart, one of the great leading men of Hollywood, probably hampered her own movie career - to many directors, she was simply Bogie’s wife. She felt she never really came into her own until she was transformed overnight into a Broadway star in the 1970 musical Applause - and she won even more unexpected applause as the author, without ghostwriter, of a best-selling, highly regarded memoir, Lauren Bacall: By Myself, which won a National Book Award in 1980. But if she never reached the top tier of Hollywood legends, Bacall, who died at 89 in Manhattan on Tuesday,...
- 8/13/2014
- by Tom Gliatto
- PEOPLE.com
One of the most iconic figures of Hollywood’s Golden Age is no longer with us. Today, sultry-voiced actress Lauren Bacall died at the age of 89 after suffering a massive stroke, multiple sources confirm.
Bacall is perhaps best known for her partnership with fellow Hollywood legend Humphrey Bogart, both on-screen and off. In 1944 classic To Have and Have Not, Bacall’s first big screen role (and the one in which she delivered her most iconic line: “You know how to whistle, don’t you, Steve? You just put your lips together and blow”), the sparks between the two ignited one of the film industry’s most enduring love stories. The pair married the next year and went on to star in such 1940s classics as The Big Sleep, Dark Passage and Key Largo, staying together until Bogart’s death in 1957. Bacall was later engaged to Frank Sinatra and married another acting legend,...
Bacall is perhaps best known for her partnership with fellow Hollywood legend Humphrey Bogart, both on-screen and off. In 1944 classic To Have and Have Not, Bacall’s first big screen role (and the one in which she delivered her most iconic line: “You know how to whistle, don’t you, Steve? You just put your lips together and blow”), the sparks between the two ignited one of the film industry’s most enduring love stories. The pair married the next year and went on to star in such 1940s classics as The Big Sleep, Dark Passage and Key Largo, staying together until Bogart’s death in 1957. Bacall was later engaged to Frank Sinatra and married another acting legend,...
- 8/13/2014
- by Isaac Feldberg
- We Got This Covered
Lauren Bacall, legendary Hollywood Golden Age actress, died on Tuesday at 89.
Lauren Bacall Dies
Bacall reportedly suffered a massive stroke at her New York City apartment, which led to her death, reported CNN.
Bacall’s break came in 1944’s To Have and Have Not in which she played Marie “Slim” Browning opposite Humphrey Bogart’s Harry Morgan. After striking up a romance with Bogart and marrying him the following year, Bacall reunited with him on the big screen in The Big Sleep (1946), Dark Passage (1947) and Key Largo (1948). Bacall and Bogart remained married until his death in 1957.
After her string of performances with her husband, Bacall teamed up with Kirk Douglas in a pair of films – Young Man With a Horn (1950) and How to Marry a Millionaire (1953). She went on to costar with Rock Hudson in 1956’s Written on the Wind and with Cary Grant in 1957’s Designing Women. She also...
Lauren Bacall Dies
Bacall reportedly suffered a massive stroke at her New York City apartment, which led to her death, reported CNN.
Bacall’s break came in 1944’s To Have and Have Not in which she played Marie “Slim” Browning opposite Humphrey Bogart’s Harry Morgan. After striking up a romance with Bogart and marrying him the following year, Bacall reunited with him on the big screen in The Big Sleep (1946), Dark Passage (1947) and Key Largo (1948). Bacall and Bogart remained married until his death in 1957.
After her string of performances with her husband, Bacall teamed up with Kirk Douglas in a pair of films – Young Man With a Horn (1950) and How to Marry a Millionaire (1953). She went on to costar with Rock Hudson in 1956’s Written on the Wind and with Cary Grant in 1957’s Designing Women. She also...
- 8/13/2014
- Uinterview
Another sad day in Hollywood…
From the AP:
Lauren Bacall, the slinky, sultry-voiced actress who created on-screen magic with Humphrey Bogart in “To Have and Have Not” and “The Big Sleep” and off-screen magic in one of Hollywood’s most storied marriages, died Tuesday at age 89.
Bacall, whose long career brought two Tonys and a special Oscar, died in New York. The managing partner of the Humphrey Bogart Estate, Robbert J.F. de Klerk, said that Bacall died at home, but declined to give further details. Bacall’s son Stephen Bogart confirmed his mother’s death to de Klerk.
She was among the last of the old-fashioned Hollywood stars and her legend, and the legend of “Bogie and Bacall” — the hard-boiled couple who could fight and make up with the best of them — started almost from the moment she appeared on screen. A fashion model and bit-part New York actress...
From the AP:
Lauren Bacall, the slinky, sultry-voiced actress who created on-screen magic with Humphrey Bogart in “To Have and Have Not” and “The Big Sleep” and off-screen magic in one of Hollywood’s most storied marriages, died Tuesday at age 89.
Bacall, whose long career brought two Tonys and a special Oscar, died in New York. The managing partner of the Humphrey Bogart Estate, Robbert J.F. de Klerk, said that Bacall died at home, but declined to give further details. Bacall’s son Stephen Bogart confirmed his mother’s death to de Klerk.
She was among the last of the old-fashioned Hollywood stars and her legend, and the legend of “Bogie and Bacall” — the hard-boiled couple who could fight and make up with the best of them — started almost from the moment she appeared on screen. A fashion model and bit-part New York actress...
- 8/13/2014
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
"You know how to whistle don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together...and blow."
With her smoky, sultry-voiced delivery, unapologetically demanding presence and coquettish bedroom eyes, 19 year-old first-time actress Lauren Bacall caught the eyes of Hollywood, the attention of audiences around the world and the heart of her To Have and Have Not co-star, Humphrey Bogart. The pair married shortly after and went on to make three further films together (Dark Passage, The Big Sleep and Key Largo), not to mention two little projects of their own - children Leslie and Stephen. Though Bogart passed away in 1957, Bacall continued to act on the big screen and in theatre for over seven decades before her death earlier today from a stroke at age 89.
Bacall was born Betty Joan Perske in The Bronx on September 16, 1924. After taking classes at the American Academy of Dramatic Art, she earned a living as...
- 8/13/2014
- by Emma Badame
- Cineplex
"Oh, maybe just whistle," said 19-year-old Lauren Bacall, giving future husband Humphrey Bogart "The Look" in "To Have and Have Not." "You know how to whistle don't you Steve? You just put your lips together and blow." 70 years later, Lauren Bacall has died at age 89 in her home, the Humphrey Bogart estate has confirmed, of a massive stroke. The New Yorker known as Betty Bacall had a long and illustrious life, from her early days as Howard Hawks' discovery in such films as "To Have and Gave Not" (clip below) and "The Big Sleep" to later successes in Hollywood ("Key Largo," "Written on the Wind," "Designing Woman," "Sex and the Single Girl," "Harper" and "Murder on the Orient Express") and on Broadway, winning Tonys for "Applause" and "Woman of the Year." She was nominated for an Oscar for playing Barbra Streisand's mother in "A Mirror...
- 8/13/2014
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
Hollywood has lost a second iconic voice in less than 24 hours. Lauren Bacall, star of screen, stage and television, passed away at the age of 89 Tuesday. Born Betty Joan Perske in the Bronx, New York in 1924, Bacall was discovered by director Howard Hawks' wife Nancy after she saw a photo of her in Vogue magazine. After flying her across the country for a screen test, Hawks transformed Betty into Lauren and cast her opposite Humphrey Bogart in his classic 1944 drama "To Have and Have Not." And, as they say, "a star was born." Bacall was a fixture of the golden age of Hollywood appearing on screen opposite Bogart, her first husband, several more times including films such as "The Big Sleep" (1946), "Dark Passage" (1947) and "Key Largo" (1948). She also starred alongside Marilyn Monroe in "How to Marry A Millionaire" (1953), with John Wayne in "Blood Alley" (1955), with Tony Curtis and Natalie Wood...
- 8/13/2014
- by Gregory Ellwood
- Hitfix
Silver screen legend Lauren Bacall died on Tuesday morning, after suffering a massive stroke at age 89.
The estate of her onetime husband Humphrey Bogart confirmed the news, first reported by TMZ, via Twitter.
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Born Betty Joan Perske in New York City, Bacall studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts after high school. At age 19, she first made her mark by landing the role of Marie Browning, opposite Humphrey Bogart, in 1944’s To Have and Have Not — the first of many on-screen pairings for the actors, who would marry the following...
The estate of her onetime husband Humphrey Bogart confirmed the news, first reported by TMZ, via Twitter.
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Born Betty Joan Perske in New York City, Bacall studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts after high school. At age 19, she first made her mark by landing the role of Marie Browning, opposite Humphrey Bogart, in 1944’s To Have and Have Not — the first of many on-screen pairings for the actors, who would marry the following...
- 8/13/2014
- TVLine.com
Lauren Bacall Dead: 89-year-old Oscar nominee who starred opposite Humphrey Bogart in ‘To Have and Have Not’ and ‘The Big Sleep’ Lauren Bacall has died following a massive stroke earlier today, August 12. Curiously, the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award nominee for The Mirror Has Two Faces, and the star of film classics such as To Have and Have Not, The Big Sleep, and How to Marry a Millionaire, had been "killed" by an Internet hoax yesterday. Bacall would have turned 90 on September 16, 2014. According to Media Mass, the Lauren Bacall death rumors began on Monday, August 11, following the creation of a "R.I.P. Lauren Bacall" Facebook page that "attracted nearly one million of ‘likes.’" On the "R.I.P. Lauren Bacall" ‘About’ page, there was the following explanation: “At about 11 a.m. Et on Monday (August 11, 2014), our beloved actress Lauren Bacall passed away. Lauren Bacall was born on September 16, 1924 in New York.
- 8/13/2014
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Lauren Bacall, the sultry presence who first hit movie screens in 1944 and then went on to play a series of sophisticated, tough-as-nails roles for the next six decades - even in real life - has died, it has been confirmed to People. "Ms. Bacall passed away peacefully at her home in New York City earlier today," Robbert de Klerk, co-managing partner of the Humphrey Bogart estate, said Tuesday evening. Bacall's son, Stephen Bogart, personally told him the news. She was 89 and a longtime resident of Manhattan's Upper West Side. Launched by a Harper's Bazaar cover when she was a 19-year-old model,...
- 8/13/2014
- by Stephen M. Silverman, @stephenmsilverm
- PEOPLE.com
She looked so terrific and strong for such a long time that it was easy to imagine Lauren Bacall might just hang around forever. And who wouldn’t want her to, for the pleasure of hearing her firing off smart, unvarnished remarks about old Hollywood in that husky voice? But the end came at last on Tuesday, when the 89-year-old actress died from a stroke at her home, according to a report on TMZ. The Humphrey Bogart Estate followed with this tweet: “With deep sorrow, yet with great gratitude for her amazing life, we confirm the passing of Lauren Bacall.
- 8/12/2014
- by EW staff
- EW - Inside Movies
Happy Birthday, Charles Strouse Strouse's first Broadway musical was the 1960 hit Bye Bye Birdie, with lyrics by Lee Adams, who would become his long time collaborator. Following this was Golden Boy 1964, also with Adams, starring Sammy Davis, Jr. and It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Superman 1966, based on the popular comic strip which introduced the song 'You've Got Possibilities' sung by Linda Lavin. In 1970, Applause starring Lauren Bacall, with book by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, and lyrics by Adams won Strouse his second Tony Award. In 1977, Strouse adapted another comic strip for the stage, creating the hit Annie, which garnered him his third Tony Award and two Grammy Awards. Other Strouse musicals include Charlie and Algernon 1979, Dance a Little Closer 1983, with lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner, Rags 1986, Nick amp Nora 1993, and An American Tragedy 1995, with lyrics by David Shaber.
- 6/7/2013
- by Stage Tube
- BroadwayWorld.com
One Day at a Time star Bonnie Franklin, who announced last September that she was suffering from pancreatic cancer, died of complications of the disease on Friday, her family told the Los Angeles Times. She was 69. Franklin died at her Los Angeles home, and is survived by her mother, Claire Franklin, and stepchildren Jed Minoff and Julie Minoff, said the paper. On the long-running CBS series, which was developed by Norman Lear and on the air from 1975-1984, Franklin starred as divorced mom Ann Romano, alongside Mackenzie Phillips and Valerie Bertinelli, who played her teenage daughters. Franklin and Bertinelli reunited...
- 3/1/2013
- by Stephen M. Silverman
- PEOPLE.com
Bonnie Franklin, who played a Midwestern divorced mom raising two teenage girls in the long-running Norman Lear sitcom One Day at a Time, died Friday at her home in Los Angeles. She was 69. Her family announced in September that she had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and was undergoing treatment. The perky 5-foot-3 redhead also was a versatile cabaret performer and veteran of the stage who collected a Tony Award nomination in 1970 for her role as a gypsy in the original production of the Betty Comden-Adolph Green musical Applause. That made her one of
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- 3/1/2013
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Vineyard Theatre continues its series of one-night-only readings of notable plays from its acclaimed history in celebration of the companys 30th Anniversary with Nicky Silver's award winning 1993 hit Pterodactyls. An absurdist black comedy about the demise of the Duncan family, and, by extension, the species, Pterodactyls will feature Emmy Award-winner Penny Fuller The Dinner Party, Applause as Duncan family matriarch, Grace Tony-nominee Bobby Steggert Ragtime as son, Todd Virginia Kull The Heiress as daughter, Emma and Claybourne Elder Bonnie amp Clyde as Emma's fianc Tommy the role of family patriarch, Arthur, is Tbd. Pterodactyls will be performed on Monday, December 10, 2012 at 7 Pm at The Vineyard 108 E. 15 St., between Irving Place and Union Square East. Tickets are priced at 75 which includes a pre-show toast in The Vineyard lobby and are available by calling The Vineyard box office at 212-353-0303, or online at www.vineyardtheatre.org. Proceeds from the reading...
- 12/3/2012
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Happy Birthday, Charles Strouse Strouse's first Broadway musical was the 1960 hit Bye Bye Birdie, with lyrics by Lee Adams, who would become his long time collaborator. Following this was Golden Boy 1964, also with Adams, starring Sammy Davis, Jr. and It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Superman 1966, based on the popular comic strip which introduced the song You've Got Possibilities sung by Linda Lavin. In 1970, Applause starring Lauren Bacall, with book by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, and lyrics by Adams won Strouse his second Tony Award. In 1977, Strouse adapted another comic strip for the stage, creating the hit Annie, which garnered him his third Tony Award and two Grammy Awards. Other Strouse musicals include Charlie and Algernon 1979, Dance a Little Closer 1983, with lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner, Rags 1986, Nick amp Nora 1993, and An American Tragedy 1995, with lyrics by David Shaber.
- 6/7/2012
- by Stage Tube
- BroadwayWorld.com
Which is more shocking: the fact that Barbra Streisand turns 70 years old today, or the fact that she's been famous for more than 50 of them? Bottom line, everything about Barbara Joan Streisand is astounding, and we've compiled 70 accomplishments, songs, performances, and trivia items to celebrate about the most accomplished female vocalist of the past century. Don your naughtiest Owl and the Pussycat lingerie and jump along with us through a haphazard history of the woman who dazzled Broadway, dumbfounded Ryan O'Neal (I am obsessed with What's Up, Doc?), and has remained larger than life for longer than anyone else.
1. "People"
2. Geri Cusensa invented the crimping iron for and because of Barbra Streisand.
3. She played opposite Joan Rivers (in a pseudo-lesbian role) in an off-off-Broadway drama called Driftwood.
4. The cover of 1978's Superman album is flawless.
5. Her spitfire comic delivery and amazing tan in What's Up, Doc?
6. "Get Happy/Happy Days...
1. "People"
2. Geri Cusensa invented the crimping iron for and because of Barbra Streisand.
3. She played opposite Joan Rivers (in a pseudo-lesbian role) in an off-off-Broadway drama called Driftwood.
4. The cover of 1978's Superman album is flawless.
5. Her spitfire comic delivery and amazing tan in What's Up, Doc?
6. "Get Happy/Happy Days...
- 4/24/2012
- by virtel
- The Backlot
Oscar-nominated costume designer who dressed Diana Ross and Barbra Streisand
Now that television talent contests are gussied up to Vegas standards, it's less easy to appreciate the discreet glamour that was the speciality of Ray Aghayan, who has died aged 83. But for 60 years, he guaranteed that difficult divas would arrive on screens and stages projecting perfection. Glamour was so much his habitat that he supervised over a dozen Oscar shows.
His initial diva, he remembered, was even more terrifying than Barbra Streisand: Princess Fawzia of Egypt, first wife of the last Shah of Iran, a woman of movie appearance and wilfulness. Aghayan came from an Armenian family in Tehran, and his widowed mother, Yasmine, designed clothes for the ruling Pahlavi family; the boy, starstruck by Hollywood, was certain he, too, could create, and the amused Fawzia summoned him via her ladies in waiting. She explained to him that she had to wear mourning dress,...
Now that television talent contests are gussied up to Vegas standards, it's less easy to appreciate the discreet glamour that was the speciality of Ray Aghayan, who has died aged 83. But for 60 years, he guaranteed that difficult divas would arrive on screens and stages projecting perfection. Glamour was so much his habitat that he supervised over a dozen Oscar shows.
His initial diva, he remembered, was even more terrifying than Barbra Streisand: Princess Fawzia of Egypt, first wife of the last Shah of Iran, a woman of movie appearance and wilfulness. Aghayan came from an Armenian family in Tehran, and his widowed mother, Yasmine, designed clothes for the ruling Pahlavi family; the boy, starstruck by Hollywood, was certain he, too, could create, and the amused Fawzia summoned him via her ladies in waiting. She explained to him that she had to wear mourning dress,...
- 10/18/2011
- by Veronica Horwell
- The Guardian - Film News
Lauren Bacall (top); Bacall, Mimi Rogers in Barbra Streisand's The Mirror Has Two Faces (bottom) In her 2005 autobiography By Myself and Then Some, Lauren Bacall's updated version of her 1978 bestseller By Myself, the two-time Tony Award-winning actress (for Applause in 1970 and Woman of the Year in 1981) candidly discusses the ballyhoo surrounding her first — and to date only — Academy Award nomination for Barbra Streisand's 1996 romantic comedy-melodrama The Mirror Has Two Faces. Apart from a few film career lulls, Bacall had been working steadily in front of the camera since her film début in Howard Hawks' 1945 adventure-drama To Have and Have Not. But whether as mere on-screen decoration (Key Largo, Bright Leaf, Young Man with a Horn) or as a reliable leading lady (How to Marry a Millionaire, Woman's World, The Fan), she had been invariably ignored by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. [...]...
- 2/20/2011
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
By Greg Hernandez
HollywoodNews.com: I’m working my way through the giant Hollywood Issue of ‘Vanity Fair’ which is always a real feast.
One of the articles I read over the weekend was a lengthy profile of Lauren Bacall, the 86-year-old screen legend (‘To Have and Have Not,’ ‘The Big Sleep,’ ‘How to Marry a Millionaire’) and Broadway star (‘Applause,’ ‘Woman of the Year,’ ‘Cactus Flower’).
She’s always been a pistol and remains so. The ‘Vanity Fair’ piece does expose Bacall’s contradictions particularly when it comes to her late first husband, the great movie icon Humphrey Bogart with whom she had two children, starred opposite in in four classic films, and was married to until his death from cancer in 1957. (She was later engaged to Frank Sinatra and married to Jason Robards with whom she has a son).
Anyway, Bacall becomes irritated in the ‘Vanity Fair’ article when the interviewer,...
HollywoodNews.com: I’m working my way through the giant Hollywood Issue of ‘Vanity Fair’ which is always a real feast.
One of the articles I read over the weekend was a lengthy profile of Lauren Bacall, the 86-year-old screen legend (‘To Have and Have Not,’ ‘The Big Sleep,’ ‘How to Marry a Millionaire’) and Broadway star (‘Applause,’ ‘Woman of the Year,’ ‘Cactus Flower’).
She’s always been a pistol and remains so. The ‘Vanity Fair’ piece does expose Bacall’s contradictions particularly when it comes to her late first husband, the great movie icon Humphrey Bogart with whom she had two children, starred opposite in in four classic films, and was married to until his death from cancer in 1957. (She was later engaged to Frank Sinatra and married to Jason Robards with whom she has a son).
Anyway, Bacall becomes irritated in the ‘Vanity Fair’ article when the interviewer,...
- 2/7/2011
- by Greg Hernandez
- Hollywoodnews.com
The New York Pops presented Once Upon a Time and Tomorrow: The Best of Charles Strouse at Carnegie Hall on Friday, April 3 at 8:00 Pm with conductor Martin Yates. This concert was a tribute to the Tony Award-winning composer of Annie, Applause and Bye Bye Birdie. Accompanying The New York Pops were guest artists Gregg Edelman, Debbie Gravitte, Rebecca Luker, Karen Mason, Emma Rowley and Eric Jordan Young. The Young People's Chorus of New York City, directed by Francisco Núñez, were also featured in the evening's program.
- 4/5/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
The New York Pops presents Once Upon a Time and Tomorrow: The Best of Charles Strouse at Carnegie Hall on Friday, April 3 at 8:00 Pm with conductor Martin Yates. This concert is a tribute to the Tony Award-winning composer of Annie, Applause and Bye Bye Birdie. Accompanying The New York Pops will be guest artists Gregg Edelman, Debbie Gravitte, Rebecca Luker, Karen Mason, Emma Rowley and Eric Jordan Young. The Young People's Chorus of New York City, directed by Francisco N??ez, will also be featured in the evening's program.
- 3/19/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
The New York Pops presents Once Upon a Time and Tomorrow: The Best of Charles Strouse at Carnegie Hall on Friday, April 3 at 8:00 Pm with conductor Martin Yates. This concert is a tribute to the Tony Award-winning composer of Annie, Applause and Bye Bye Birdie. Accompanying The New York Pops will be guest artists Gregg Edelman, Debbie Gravitte, Rebecca Luker, Karen Mason, Emma Rowley and Eric Jordan Young. The Young People's Chorus of New York City, directed by Francisco N??ez, will also be featured in the evening's program.
- 3/18/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
Minsky's opens February 6, 2009, at Center Theatre Group/Ahmanson Theatre and continues through March 1 (previews began January 21). Featuring music by three-time Tony Award-winning composer Charles Strouse (Bye Bye Birdie, Annie, Applause) and lyrics by Susan Birkenhead (Jelly's Last Jam and Triumph of Love), Minsky's is Center Theatre Group's second collaboration with Tony Award-winning writer Bob Martin and director/choreographer Casey Nicholaw (The Drowsy Chaperone).
- 2/6/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
White Plains Performing Arts Center (Jack W. Batman, Executive Producer) is pleased to announce complete casting for the upcoming production of the Tony Award-winning Best Musical A Little Night Music, by Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler. The cast of this brand new production of this Broadway masterpiece will feature Tony Award nominees Penny Fuller (Applause, Dividing The Estate) as ?Desiree? and Mark Jacoby (Ragtime) as ?Fredrick,? Broadway veteran Sheila Smith (Follies) as ?Madame Armfeldt,? Laura Osnes (Grease) as ?Anne? and Rachel de Benedet (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Nine) as ?Charlotte.? A Little Night Music will be directed by Sidney J. Burgoyne, who helmed this season?s acclaimed Camelot and last year?s sold-out production of Ragtime for the theatre, with Music Direction by James Bassi with choreography by Melissa Rae Mahon and Sean McKnight.
- 2/3/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
"Minsky's" opens February 6, 2009, at Center Theatre Group/Ahmanson Theatre and continues through March 1 (previews began January 21). Featuring music by three-time Tony Award-winning composer Charles Strouse ("Bye Bye Birdie," "Annie," "Applause") and lyrics by Susan Birkenhead ("Jelly's Last Jam" and "Triumph of Love"), "Minsky's" is Center Theatre Group's second collaboration with Tony Award-winning writer Bob Martin and director/choreographer Casey Nicholaw ("The Drowsy Chaperone")...
- 1/29/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
Last night in Beverly Hills, Monday January 26th, The Paley Center for Media saluted the work of award-winning composer Charles Strouse in the third of its concert & conversations series, PaleyAfterDark. The composer of such great Broadway hits including Bye Bye Birdie, Golden Boy, Applause, Annie, and Rags, Strouse with special guests Bonnie Franklin (who nominated for a Tony award for Applause) and cast members of Minsky's shared a rare evening of story and song which celebrated his illustrious career and the Los Angeles debut of his latest musical triumph, Minsky's. The program was illuminated by archival footage of rare Strouse material from the Paley Center's collection and finished with a musical performance by the composer singing an arrangement of favorites from "Put on a Happy Face" to "Tomorrow."Minsky's is based on the Bud Yorkin-Norman Lear production of "The Night They Raided Minsky's." Charles Strouse has touched the...
- 1/28/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
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