NEW YORK (AP) — Janis Paige, a popular actress in Hollywood
and in Broadway musicals and comedies who danced with Fred 
Astaire, toured with Bob Hope and continued to perform well into 
her 80s, has died. She was one of the last surviving stars from
the Golden Age of Hollywood.

Paige , born in Tacoma, Washington, died Sunday of natural
causes at her Los Angeles home.

Bob Hope and Janis Paige in Saigon,Vietnam  
for the annual Christmas show in 1964.

1957

SANDY KOZEL

The musical’s 1956 Broadway production was a notable critical
and popular success, winning six Tony Awards, including Best
Musical. It set a record for the longest run of any musical on
Broadway up to that time and was followed by a hit London
production. Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews starred in both
productions.

On April 7, 1949, the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South
Pacific opened at the Majestic Theatre on Broadway in New
York City. The romantic musical about World War II, which
touches on controversial racial themes, goes on to run for
almost five years, becoming one of the most popular musicals
of the 1950s.

 
CARLATA BRADLEY

Diana Ross was the lead singer of the vocal group The Supremes,
who became Motown‘s most successful act during the 1960s and
one of the world’s best-selling girl groups of all time.

They remain the best-charting female group in history, with a total
of twelve number-one hit singles on the Billboard Hot 100..

Following her departure from the Supremes in 1970, Ross began
a successful solo music career. Diana is 80 years young today.

My Fair Lady is a musical with a book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner
and music by Frederick Loewe. The story, based on the 1938 film adaptation of George Bernard Shaw‘s 1913 play Pygmalion.

The musical’s 1956 Broadway production was a notable critical and popular success, winning six Tony Awards, including Best Musical.

It set a record for the longest run of any musical on Broadway up to
that time and was followed by a hit London production. Rex Harrison
and Julie Andrews starred in both productions.