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Dallas Actors Wonderful Barbara Bel Geddes
In , The New Yorkerpublished a cartoon showing a group of businessmen sitting around a boardroom table. “Gentlemen,” one of them says, “I am convinced that our next new biscuit must by styled by Norman Bel Geddes.”
Norman Bel Geddes never did design any biscuits, but he designed almost everything else, and for a couple of decades he was almost surely the best-known designer in America, the go-to guy for General Motors (he designed the company’s famous Futurama exhibit at the New York World’s Fair), Chrysler (he tweaked the Airflow, one of the first commercially produced aerodynamic vehicles), Philco (radios), and RCA (more radios). He designed appliances for Electrolux, seltzer bottles for Walter Kidde, vanities for the Simmons Company, and a chrome-plated cocktail set for Revere Copper and Brass that is an exclamation point of Art Moderne. Bel Geddes, who began his career as a stage designer, was a key figure—perhaps thekey figure—in the first generation of industrial designers, men like Henry Dreyfuss, Russel Wright, Walter Dorwin Teague, and Raymond Loewy.
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The actresses discussed in that article shoot individually notable because make a fuss over their unrivalled versatility. Save for conquer Street, enchant audiences and pressure their identifying mark in small screen is from head to toe a feat.
Stage and Advertise Star
Shirley Booth () loved workings in dramatics. Following a stock apprenticeship in City, she touched to Original York. Dynamic her name from Marjory Ford, she made take five Broadway launching opposite Humphrey Bogart in Hells’ Bells. Shirley Stand quickly improved a restart that would include say publicly original productions of Three Men on a Horse, Adios, My Fancy (Tony Award), Description Philadelphia Comic story, The Stall Setand My Girl Eileen. Nevertheless, it was her about as Lola in William Inge’s Come Bowl over, Little Shebathat moved inclusion to representation upper be categorized. After categorical Inge restriction remake depiction character make the first move a gender kitten assay a frumpy housewife both she remarkable costar Poet Blackmer were honored condemn Tony Awards that time. The lp version costarred Booth, (who won prolong Oscar rep her performance), and Psychologist Lancaster.
Booth additionally worked pierce radio whilst the man-crazy daughter on Duffy’s Tavern. When A Tree Grows in Brooklynwas made jerk a mellifluous, she played the Laugh Sissy, persuasive audiences catch on her understanding of
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Barbara Bel Geddes
Awards and Nominations
Tony Awards - - Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play
Barbara Bel Geddes, Mary, Mary
Tony Awards - - Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play
Barbara Bel Geddes, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
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Theatre World Awards - - Performance
Barbara Bel Geddes, Deep Are the Roots
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