In 1956, Lerner and Loewe's My Fair Lady first appeared.

By far his biggest hit was the musical My Fair Lady ( 1956 ), adapted from George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, with book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe.

( In 1956, after Howard's death, Lerner and Loewe set Pygmalion to music in My Fair Lady.

Although work was supposed to continue on on the Lane – Lerner Li ' l Abner, this version never appeared, and My Fair Lady, Lerner and Loewe's adaptation of Pygmalion, opened in 1956, becoming the hit musical of the decade.

The final line of the verse was probably the inspiration for the title of Lerner and Loewe's 1956 musical My Fair Lady.

# Lerner and Loewe: My Fair Lady ( 1956 )( shared with Philip J. Lang )

In 1956, Lieberson persuaded CBS to put up the entire capitalization for Lerner and Loewe's My Fair Lady.

# My Fair Lady, 1956 Broadway, 1958 London, m Frederick Loewe, lb Alan Jay Lerner (" I Could Have Danced All Night ," " On the Street Where You Live ") ( 2, 717, the longest-running musical in history, until beaten by The Fantasticks off-Broadway and Fiddler on the Roof on Broadway ; 2, 281 in London ) ( 1957 Tony Award winner )

* " I Could Have Danced All Night " and " Show Me " from Lerner and Lowe's My Fair Lady ( 1956 )

* My Fair Lady ( 1956 ), with Frederick Loewe

Sponsored by an £ 8, 000 bequest from Richard Wheatley in 1939, and £ 7, 500 from the City Council, it was unveiled in 1956, from preliminary designs drawn up in 1938.

In 1956 his work, Angel of Peace was unveiled at the American Cemetery in Henri-Chapelle, Belgium, a commission from the American Battle Monuments Commission that he inherited from Carl Milles who died before he was able to produce it.

They left two crowns as gifts, which hangs above the wooden plaque about Sir William, which was unveiled in 1956 by Richard Talbot. Church of Ss.

Her movie career included a bit part in It Happened One Night ( 1934 ) and roles in Outlaw Women ( 1952 ), Glen or Glenda ( 1953 ), Body Beautiful ( 1953 ), The Blue Gardenia ( 1953 ), Count the Hours ( 1953 ), Mesa of Lost Women ( 1953 ), College Capers ( 1954 ), Jail Bait ( 1954 ), The Raid ( 1954 ), This Is My Love ( 1954 ), The Opposite Sex ( 1956 ), The Ironbound Vampire ( 1997 ), and Dimensions in Fear ( 1998 ).

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* 1956 – My Fair Lady premiered on Broadway at the Mark Hellinger Theatre.

In 1956, Olive Hodgkinson, a cave guide whose husband's family owned the caves for over 500 years, was a contestant on What's My Line?

His other TV appearances included Down You Go, What's My Line ?, Camera One, Ken's Column, Trader Horne ( a weekly advertising magazine for the Tyne Tees region ), Let's Imagine, Call My Bluff ( as team captain ), and various specials with Richard Murdoch such as Free and Easy ( 1953 ) and Show for the Telly ( 1956 ).

* Maxine Sullivan, A Tribute to Andy Razaf, 1956, produced by Leonard Feather, re-issued in 2006 as My Memories of You with two additional non-Razaf tracks.

In 1992, Mantle wrote My Favorite Summer 1956 about his 1956 season.

Kelly was a Mystery Guest on the March 11, 1956, broadcast of What's My Line?

He was referred to in Günter Grass's book, My Century, meeting with his ideological opposite, Bertolt Brecht, shortly before both of them died in the summer of 1956.

* Shirley Bassey recorded the song in 1956 and it appeared on the B-side of her first single " Burn My Candle ( At Both Ends )" released on the Philips record label.

All-white doo-wop groups were also appearing ; The Mello-Kings ' 1956 " Tonight, Tonight " and The Diamonds ' chart-topping " Little Darlin '" in 1957, The Skyliners ' 1959 " Since I Don't Have You " and 1960 " This I Swear ", The Tokens ' 1961 " Tonight I Fell In Love " and " I Love My Baby " all saw success.

Among his earliest songs was " Lonely Boy " ( 1956 ), " The Man From Galilee " ( 1956 ) " inspired by Sunday School stories ", the unreleased " Bopping With My Girl "; " My Feet are on the Rock " ( 1958 ), " The Thanksgiving Song " ( 1959 ); " Country Church, Country People " ( 1959 ), was written for his grandmother Lena.

Pearce also notes that in her 1956 book, All the Books of My Life, Kaye-Smith said she had based " Mrs Adis " on an old story by St Francis de Sales.

* Sheila Kaye-Smith ( 1956 ), All the Books of My Life, Cassell, London, 1956

The first of these, It's Always Fair Weather ( 1956 ) co-directed with Donen, was a musical satire on television and advertising, and includes his famous roller skate dance routine to " I Like Myself ", and a dance trio with Michael Kidd and Dan Dailey which allowed Kelly to experiment with the widescreen possibilities of Cinemascope.

* In June 1956 Elvis Presley returned to Tupelo for a concert at the Mississippi-Alabama State Fair & Dairy Show.

Also in Jericho, and part of the Westbury postal zone, is the New York Community Bank Theatre, originally established in 1956 as the Westbury Music Fair.

* Women: Folk Songs About the Fair Sex ( 1956, Decca DL 8245, 12 inch, 33 rpm, with 4 additional songs )

In 1956 he was cast as the irresponsible Alfred P. Doolittle in My Fair Lady, a role that he played on Broadway, the West End and in the film version in 1964.

In 1956 Holloway created the role of Alfred P. Doolittle in the original Broadway production of My Fair Lady.

During the 1950s, Bogarde came to prominence playing a hoodlum who shoots and kills a police constable in The Blue Lamp ( 1950 ) co-starring Jack Warner and Bernard Lee ; a handsome artist who comes to rescue of Jean Simmons during the World's Fair in Paris in So Long at the Fair, a film noir thriller ; an accidental murderer who befriends a young boy played by Jon Whiteley in Hunted ( aka The Stranger in Between ) ( 1952 ); in Appointment in London ( 1953 ) as a young Wing-Commander in Bomber Command who, against orders, opts to fly his 90th mission with his men in a major air offensive against the Germans ; an unjustly imprisoned man who regains hope in clearing his name when he learns his sweetheart, Mai Zetterling, is still alive in Desperate Moment ( 1953 ); Doctor in the House ( 1954 ), as a medical student, in a film that made Bogarde one of the most popular British stars of the 1950s, and co-starring Kenneth More, Donald Sinden and James Robertson Justice as their crabby mentor ; The Sleeping Tiger ( 1954 ), playing a neurotic criminal with co-star Alexis Smith, and Bogarde's first film for American expatriate director Joseph Losey ; Doctor at Sea ( 1955 ), co-starring Brigitte Bardot in one of her first film roles ; as a returning Colonial who fights the Mau-Mau with Virginia McKenna and Donald Sinden in Simba ( 1955 ); Cast a Dark Shadow ( 1955 ), as a man who marries women for money and then murders them ; The Spanish Gardener ( 1956 ), co-starring Michael Hordern, Jon Whiteley, and Cyril Cusack ; Doctor at Large ( 1957 ), again with Donald Sinden, another entry in the " Doctor films series ", co-starring later Bond-girl Shirley Eaton ; the Powell and Pressburger production Ill Met by Moonlight ( 1957 ) co-starring Marius Goring as the German General Kreipe, kidnapped on Crete by Patrick " Paddy " Leigh Fermor ( Bogarde ) and a fellow band of adventurers based on W. Stanley Moss ' real-life account of the WW2 caper ; A Tale of Two Cities ( 1958 ), a faithful retelling of Charles Dickens ' classic ; as a Flt.

Fox also produced Broadway musicals, including the Rodgers and Hammerstein films, beginning with the musical version of State Fair in 1945, and continuing years later with Carousel in 1956, The King and I, and The Sound of Music.

In 1956, he represented Ireland at the Venice Biennale, winning the Premio Acquisito Internationale ( a once-off award when the event was acquired by the Nestle Corporation ) with A Family ( National Gallery of Ireland ), subsequently included in the historic exhibition Fifty Years of Modern Art Brussels, World Fair 1958.

The song was also included on A. L. Lloyd's 1955 album The English And Scottish Popular Ballads, using Kidson's melody, but the version using the melody later developed by Simon & Garfunkel in " Scarborough Fair / Canticle " was first recorded on a 1956 album, English Folk Songs, by Audrey Coppard.

** Before My Fair Lady began its six-year, 2717 performance run at the Mark Hellinger Theatre in 1956, that theatre was thought to be cursed., It had been switched back and forth several times between being a motion picture theatre and a live stage theatre.

* " Show Me ", a song from the 1956 stage musical My Fair Lady

They then opened other theatres in the round, including Shady Grove Music Fair in Washington, DC, Painters Mill Music Fair in Maryland ( closed in 1991 ), and the Westbury Music Fair on Long Island, opened in 1956.

* Fair Play ( 1956 )

( The first and most famous of these was the one based on My Fair Lady, recorded by Previn, Manne, and bassist Leroy Vinnegar in 1956.