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RONALD ALEXANDER (1917 - 1995)
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I am the only nephew of Ronnie, fondly known to me as Uncle Ronnie. I was lucky enough to have lived with Ronnie for many years during my childhood. during his years as a struggling young actor I often helped him with his parts reading the lines of his partner. I remember him sitting in the living room chair with a large drawing board on his lap writing his first plays long hand. I was allowed to stay up late with uncle to listen to the radio comedians of the day, Bob Hope and others. Our house was the feeding ground for many of his actor friends during the holidays, Christmas and Thanks Giving. One friend who my grand mother loved to have at our table was a young Italian actor, Guy Tonto, his stage name he was from Phily but I don't know his real family name. the reason for his popularity was his ability to sit for hours eating his way through a holiday dinner. Uncle Ronnie added a dimension to my life that many children could not possible have had. after his success with his first play 'Time Out For Ginger, I was invited to the dinner parties with some of the biggest names on Broadway, and watched Ronnie hold court. I was going to interior design school at that time ,1954, and was invited to tag along with the set designer to the second hand shops in Manhattan buying furniture for the set. Sorry have to run more later.
- Lloyd Pirl.
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Accidental Angel Grand Prize Holiday For Lovers Nobody Loves An Albatross Time And Ginger Time Out For GingerAccidental Angel
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a young professor's been engaged a long time and one reason the marriage hasn't taken place is his literally explosive experiments
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Top of PageGrand Prize
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tells about a private secretary, Lu Cotton, employed by and constantly trying to discourage the amorous advances of her attractive, charming millionaire boss, Mr. Robert Meredith. Lu's life becomes humorously complicated when Mr. Meredith forces her to appear on a TV show, and she wins the grand prize: the right to be her boss' boss for 24 hours. Meredith arrives at her one room walk-up apartment and suggests that he start working for her as soon as possible. Outraged by this invasion of her privacy, yet attracted to him, she turns the tables and forces her boss to become her domestic. She makes him rinse her laundry, wash her dishes, and shouts orders at him as though she were a five-star general. Meredith vows vengeance and the basic poor girl, rich man conflict is established, then further involved and heightened with laughter by the advent of Lu's bright, beautiful girlfriend (Kate Wilson) who loves men, and the entrance of Lu's ad-man fiance, who hates Brooks Brothers clothes. From this point in the firs
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Plymouth Theatre, New York 26 Jan 1955
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Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1955 -
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Top of PageHoliday For Lovers
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Is the carefree story of the Dean family-Father, Mother and twenty-year-old daughter, Betsy-from Minneapolis, who embark on their first European holiday, to soak up some old world charm and visit with a twenty-three-year-old daughter, Meg, who's been studying music abroad for three years. The situation becomes hysterical when they arrive in Paris, and the quick tempered Mr. Dean finds he doesn't speak enough French to make the elevator man understand he wants to get to the lobby. His wife discovers the fabulous fashions; Betsy encounters a handsome American painter-and love; and the plot complicates when beautiful Meg arrives with a charming, suave, French maestro who, Father is certain, has taken romantic advantage of his daughter. We follow the family to Spain, where Mr. Dean sees his first bullfight and is booed out of the stadium. We travel with them to Rome, where Mr. Dean learns to understand Europe-and his own family! The romance of the two girls in the atmosphere of Latin Europe supplies the chief inv
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Longacre Theatre, New York 14 Feb 1957
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Romantic Comedy Comedy
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Top of PageNobody Loves An Albatross
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as Walter Kerr of the New York Herald-Tribune describes the play and its central character: "He's a producer and writer of television serials, except that he doesn't really write any serials, they're written by frostbitten spastics he keeps in closets, and he really doesn't produce anything either, he just keeps dancing around his living room pretending to be as many other people as possible. Sometimes he is Toulouse Lautrec, popping stubby-kneed from his hiding-place behind the black leather furniture, sometimes he is Michelangelo, bestowing a kiss upon himself in the mirror, sometimes he is Father Christmas, sometimes he is Jack the Ripper, and always he is ananias, the man who cannot tell a lie. 'This is my art form!' He coos in loving self-congratulation as he opens his arms to embrace the ersatz universe he has spun out of whole cloth, a universe in which busy people come and go to listen to his quick and glossy fabrications before interrupting him to articulate theirs." Included in this amazing array of
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Top of PageTime And Ginger
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The setting is a familiar one: the former home of Ginger Carol and her family. But now Ginger is Mrs. Edwin Davis, with two children of her own, and a new generation is in residence. Ginger herself is as much of a rebel as ever, but while she believes in her daughter Winnie's sexual freedom, she draws the line at letting her boyfriend, Sam, move in with her. Her husband, Eddie, otherwise a conservative sort, thinks the idea is fine-and might even prompt the young couple to get married. The situation is further complicated when Winnie announces that she is pregnant-and while Sam now resolves to do the right thing, she rebuffs his proposal. at the same time, Ginger's teenaged son, Tinker, is giving evidence of being attracted to his own sex, despite his cozy relationship with Billie, the stunning girl next door. The only one who seems untouched by all this is Ginger's septuagenarian father, who pretends to be ailing and absent-minded, when the truth is that he is the strongest, and sharpest, of them all. Needle
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Top of PageTime Out For Ginger
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according to the Herald-Tribune, "[The story] starts us out with a fairly staid banker who needs some sort of creative release and finds it in lecturing to local high school classes on the need for self-fulfillment. . .It quickly develops however, that one of [the banker's] daughters-the youngest of three-has been very much impressed by her father's exhortations. She has further decided that her own true fulfillment can best be realized by going out for the football team." any number of complications result: the father's job is jeopardized because the bank president doesn't approve; the girl's elder sisters insist that their social life has been blighted-especially the sister whose boyfriend is captain of the football team; and the girl football player herself finds that playing football and being a girl aren't always compatible, particularly when her own boyfriend disapproves of what she's doing. after any number of riotous mishaps, the play ends on a happily tender note with the whole family going out to see
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Lyceum Theatre, New York 26 Nov 1952
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Male: 5 Female: 5 Other: -
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