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- 50 The famous actress Helen Hayes (1900–93), who was married to Charles MacArthur. Something of a legend in the American theater, she is one of a select group to have won an Emmy, an Oscar, a Grammy, and a Tony. She had two Broadway theaters named after her. In 1955 the former Fulton Theatre was renamed the Helen Hayes Theatre; after that…ebooks/Bernstein, Leonard/Leonard Bernstein Letters, The - Leonard Bernstein.txt
- 60 During the summer of 1946, Felicia performed in the Broadway production of Swan Song by Charles MacArthur and Ben Hecht at the Booth Theatre.ebooks/Bernstein, Leonard/Leonard Bernstein Letters, The - Leonard Bernstein.txt
- Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur’s 1932 show-business farce, Twentieth Century (which they had based on a play by Bruce Millholland) was turned into a musical that was not so much backstage as on track, since most of the action takes place aboard the Twentieth Century Limited (in a stunning art-deco set by Robin Wagner) as it speeds from C…ebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
- Fun to be Free (pageant, Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur, Moss Hart), New York, Madison Square Garden, 5 October 1941; sponsored by Fight for Freedom, Inc.ebooks/Hinton, Stephen/Weill's Musical Theater_ Stages of Reform - Stephen Hinton.txt
- 58 . McArthur is not to be confused with Charles MacArthur, playwright and husband of Helen Hayes, with whom Weill had worked on Fun to Be Free.ebooks/Hinton, Stephen/Weill's Musical Theater_ Stages of Reform - Stephen Hinton.txt
- The book was by Ben Hecht (based on the 1937 Carole Lombard movie, Nothing Sacred, which Hecht had written with Charles MacArthur) and told the story of Hazel Flagg of Stoneyhead, Vermont, who mistakenly believes she is dying of radium poisoning as a result of her job painting dials in a watch factory. When she finds out that she has a lo…ebooks/Mandelbaum, Ken/Not Since Carrie_ Forty Years of Broadway Musical Flops - Ken Mandelbaum.txt
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