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Showing posts with label Grace Kelly. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Grace Kelly. Show all posts
Monday, November 10, 2025

This Day in Theater History (Odets Makes Last Broadway Splash in ‘The Country Girl’)

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Nov. 10, 1950—Playwright Clifford Odets —onetime hope of the American theater, more recently scorned as a Hollywood sellout—landed his last ...
Sunday, October 12, 2025

This Day in Theater History (George Kelly Reaches Career Peak With ‘Craig’s Wife')

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Oct. 12, 1925—After years of developing his craft from vaudeville skits to full-length comedies, playwright-director George Kelly triumphed...
Wednesday, February 5, 2014

This Day in Theater History (Kelly Dramedy ‘The Show-Off’ Premieres)

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February 5, 1924—At the height of a decade when a President of the United States said “the business of America is business,” George Kel...
Sunday, November 3, 2013

Theater Review: George Kelly’s ‘Philip Goes Forth,’ at the Mint Theater

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The Show-Off might have been the title of one of the comedies that put George Kelly atop Broadway for a time in the 1920s, but it cert...
Friday, September 14, 2012

This Day in Film History (Grace Kelly, Star-Turned-Royal, Dies)

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September 14, 1982—Nearly three decades after a film scene in which her character gave Cary Grant the willies with her hairpin turns in...
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