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Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Dorothy Loudon and Annie by Stephen Bowie

Dorothy Loudon wasn't working. Neither was Annie. Loudon, by the mid-1970s, had gone into a semi-voluntary semi-retirement. The Women, in 1973, was the last of a half-dozen promising Broad…

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Wednesday, October 17, 2012

How Not to Succeed in Business by Stephen Bowie

The idea of late blooming was essential to Dorothy Loudon's mythology. Although she admitted to being 44 at the time of Annie (a fiction that many internet sites, including the Internet Movi…

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Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Dorothy and Noël by Stephen Bowie

The season of Noël Coward at the NYPL is coming to a close, as we near the end of the Library for the Performing Arts's exhibition Star Quality: The World of Noël Coward, which com…

SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 11:29AM
Thursday, August 2, 2012

An Introduction to the Dorothy Loudon Papers by Stephen Bowie

Dorothy Loudon would have made a fine archivist. As it happens, Ms. Loudon chose another line of work. An acclaimed nightclub singer, television performer, and theater actress, Loudon's most…

SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 09:41AM
Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Obituary: Michael Lipton (1925-2012) by Stephen Bowie

Michael Lipton, a prominent Broadway and daytime television actor who dabbled in film and prime-time over the course of a five-decade career, died on February 10 at the Actors’ Fund Home i…

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