Tag: Julie Harris
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DREAM GIRL
June 23, 1947 On this date in 1947, Lucille Ball opened in DREAM GIRL, produced at McCarter Theatre, Princeton, New Jersey for the Princeton Festival. The comedy had originally opened on Broadway on December 14, 1945, starring Betty Field and written and directed by Elmer Rice (then married to Ms. Field). In 1937, Lucille Ball…
Michael T. Mooney
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RIP William Luce
1931-2019 Luce wrote the Broadway plays THE BELLE OF AMHERST (1976), BARRYMORE (1997), LUCIFER’S CHILD (1991), and LILLIAN (1986) profiling Emily Dickinson, John Barrymore, Isak Dinesen, and Lillian Hellman, respectively. Based on his experience writing about real life figures, in 1990 he collaborated with Cynthia A. Cherbak to write the screenplay for the TV movie LUCY…