The original Broadway production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, a play by Tennessee Williams,opened at the Morosco Theater in New York. It was directed Elia Kazan
and starred Barbara Bel Geddes as Maggie; Ben Gazzara as Brick; and Burl
Ives as Big Daddy. The play had 694 performances and won the Pulitzer
Prize for Drama in 1955.

 
From left: Tennessee Williams and Elia Kazan

Barbara Bel Geddes as Maggie

Marty Allen (born Morton David Alpern) is a stand-up comedian and actor
whose career spans over 60 years. He is still actively working today and
will be playing Vegas this weekend.

After operatic vocal training, Margaret Truman, the only child of President Harry S. 
Truman, began a singing career with a debut radio recital on ABC. Reviewers were 
not always kind, such as Washington Post music critic Paul Hume who wrote that 
Truman was “extremely attractive on stage…(but) cannot sing very well.” She
continued to performed on stage, radio, and television until the mid-1950s.

Bess, Harry, and Margaret Truman standing in front of the
Independence, the official presidential plane.

The Lerner and Loewe musical opened on Broadway at the Mark Hellinger
Theater in New York City. It transferred to the Broadhusrt Theater and then
The Broadway Theater, where it closed on September 29, 1962 after 2,717
performances, a record at the time.

Stars Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews

  

              Claire Trevor (March 8, 1910– April 8, 2000)

Trevor was an Academy Award-winning actress who portrayed many
’’bad girl”roles in film noir and other black-and-white thrillers. She
appeared in over 60 films. Her acting career spanned more than
seven decades and included successes in stage, radio, television
and film.

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