Susan Hayward obituary highlights life and film legacy
Susan Hayward died at age 55 on March 14, 1975 after two years battling a brain tumor. The actress, born Edith Marriner and once a hat model, appeared in over 50 films, won the 1958 Oscar for I Want To Live, and received other nominations for Smash-Up, Angel on My Shoulder, My Foolish Heart, and With a Song in My Heart. Her last screen work was TV movies in 1974 Seat of Anger and Say Goodbye Maggie Cole.
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Ashmedai in New York Opera Brings Satire to The Music Center
New York City Opera presented the West Coast premiere of Josefh Tal’s Ashmedai at the Music Center Pavilion. The Talmudic tale imagines the devil betting he can rule the people for a year, staged with Brechtian wit and Weill-esque color. Gary Bertini conducted, with strong performances from Langston Griffith Ukena and Craig, while Franne Lee’s costumes mixed past and present.
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No Mother to Guide Her melodrama at Jewish Center
Dorothy Korher reports on the Jewish Community Center Long Beach opening of Anthony Forsythe melodrama No Mother to Guide Her. Harold Collins as the irksome villain Talbot Twillingham leads a lively cast including Lorie Shapiro Spring Overton Steven Fieldman Casper Vandenburgh Susan Leff as the vamp and Naomi Collins as Dagmar Fay. Audiences booed hissed and cheered as the performance delivered nostalgia aided by mime in white face and free popcorn and pretzels. The production directed by Claire Zundell Weiner runs 8:30 p.m. with another show December 17.
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Jazzman Rahsaan Roland Kirk dies at 41
Famed jazz musician Rahsaan Roland Kirk who was blind from birth and used multiple instruments at once died at Bloomington Hospital after suffering a stroke in 1975. He was 41, had just performed at Indiana University, and left behind a career noted for avant garde jazz and multi instrumental prowess. Born August 7, 1936, in Columbus Ohio, he developed the reed instruments manzello and stritch and recorded for Atlantic and Warner Brothers. He won Downbeat critics poll as top flutist and performed with Charles Mingus and at the Newport Jazz Festival multiple times.
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