His body was cremated, and his ashes were scattered from an airplane over Broadway in Manhattan by Captain Eddie Rickenbacker on December 18, 1946.

But the failure of Park Avenue in 1946, a " smart " show about divorce, co-written with composer Arthur Schwartz, was his farewell to Broadway.

In 1946, he appeared on Broadway as the young hero in the political drama A Flag is Born, refusing to accept wages above the Actor's Equity rate because of his commitment to the cause of Israeli independence.

She landed the role of Si-Tchun, a lady-in-waiting, in the 1946 Broadway musical about the Orient, Lute Song, starring Mary Martin and a pre-stardom Yul Brynner.

As a result, in 1946, Broadway High School was renamed Edison Technical School.

* Lute Song ( 1946 ) ( Broadway )

Ellington's sole book musical, Beggar's Holiday, was staged on Broadway in 1946.

Also in 1946, he appeared on Broadway in A Flag is Born, also written by Ben Hecht, to help promote the creation of a Jewish state in Israel.

Liza May Minnelli ( born March 12, 1946 ) is an American actress and singer, often referred to as The Queen of Broadway and / or Hollywood.

The show was restaged three more times on Broadway: in 1946, 1969 – 70, and 1986-87.

The orchestra's official public début was at the Capitol Theatre on Broadway where it opened for a three week engagement on January 24, 1946.

Born Yesterday is a play written by Garson Kanin which premiered on Broadway in 1946, starring Judy Holliday as Billie Dawn.

Born Yesterday opened on February 4, 1946 on Broadway at the Lyceum Theatreand ran there until November 6, 1948 ; the play transferred to Henry Miller's Theatre on November 9, 1948 and closed on December 31, 1949, after a total of 1642 performances.

He worked on a 1946 U. S. Army Signal Corps film with Charlton Heston, and next settled in Greenwich Village and enrolled at the American Theater Wing, working off Broadway, including Jean-Paul Sartre's The Victors.

The longest-running Broadway production starred Henry Daniell and Jessie Royce Landis and ran for 39 performances in 1946.

He began appearing in motion pictures in a comedy series pairing him with silent film legend Buster Keaton and continuing with The Wet Parade ( 1932 ), Broadway to Hollywood ( 1933 ), The Man Who Came to Dinner ( 1942, playing " Banjo ", a character based on Harpo Marx ), Ziegfeld Follies ( 1946 ), Billy Rose's Jumbo ( 1962, based on the 1935 musical ) and It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World ( 1963 ).

Ferrer may be best-remembered for his performance in the title role of Cyrano de Bergerac, which he first played on Broadway in 1946.

The production became one of the hits of the 1946 / 47 Broadway season, winning Ferrer the first Best Actor Tony Award for his depiction of the long-nosed poet / swordsman ( tied with Fredric March for Ruth Gordon's play about her own early years as an actress, Years Ago ).

* Show Boat ( 1961 New York City Center revival )— Andrew Frierson singing " Ol ' Man River ", and Carol Bruce, from the 1946 Broadway revival, singing " Bill ".

But Not Goodbye, Seaton's 1944 Broadway debut as a playwright, closed after only 23 performances, although it later was adapted for the 1946 film The Cockeyed Miracle by Karen DeWolf.

* Bly was the subject of a 1946 Broadway musical by Johnny Burke and Jimmy Van Heusen.

In 1946, she returned to Broadway as the scatterbrained Billie Dawn in Born Yesterday.

He became increasingly dependent on more independent producers such as Ben Hecht to give him work, such as Angels Over Broadway ( 1940 ) and Specter of the Rose ( 1946 ).

Ben Vereen ( born October 10, 1946 ) is an American actor, dancer, and singer who has appeared in numerous Broadway theatre shows.

Perry died from a heart attack during the play's lengthy Broadway run on June 28, 1946, one day after her 58th birthday.

1946 saw Cessna return to commercial production after the revocation of wartime production restrictions ( L-48 ) with the release of the Model 120 and Model 140.

The factory was bombed by the Allies in 1944 and rebuilt in 1946, after the war ended, and included a works for road car production.

Food production in 1946 – 48 was only two-thirds of the prewar level, while grain and meat shipments – which usually supplied 25 % of the food – no longer arrived from the East.

In January 1946 the Allied Control Council set the foundation of the future German economy by putting a cap on German steel production — the maximum allowed was set at about 5, 800, 000 tons of steel a year, equivalent to 25 % of the pre-war production level.

Further production followed at a rate of 150 a month, and by the end of 1946 the production total was 839.

On Mark Hellinger's production Swell Guy ( 1946 ), for instance, Siodmak was brought in to replace Frank Tuttle only six days after completing work on The Killers.

After two prototypes " Ambrož " ( December 1946 ) and " Josef " ( March 1947 ), the T600 went into mass production in 1948.

Leigh was well enough to resume acting in 1946, in a successful London production of Thornton Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth ; but her films of this period, Caesar and Cleopatra ( 1945 ) and Anna Karenina ( 1948 ), were not great successes.

In later years the actual production of aircraft was the responsibility of the Ministry of Aircraft Production ( 1940 – 46 ), the Ministry of Supply ( 1946 – 59 ), the Ministry of Aviation ( 1959 – 67 ) and finally the Ministry of Technology ( 1967 – 70 ).

Walter Nugent Monck brought his Maddermarket Theatre production to Stratford in 1946, inaugurating the post-war tradition of the play.

Civilian production at Dodge was restarted by late 1945, in time for the 1946 model year.

Between 1946 and 1952, a marine type of Dictyonema shale served for uranium production in Sillamäe, Estonia, and between 1950 and 1989 Sweden used alum shale for the same purposes.

The name changed to Auster ( after the Roman name for the south wind ) on 7 March 1946, when production shifted to Rearsby aerodrome, all in Leicestershire.

In 1946, the company restarted car production with the 202, delivering 14000 copies.

In the past, the country's economic policy had been defined by the Employment Act of 1946, which encouraged the federal government to pursue " maximum employment, production, and purchasing power " through cooperation with private enterprise.

The play had its first English production in 1946 at the New Theatre in London with Ralph Richardson as Inspector Goole, Harry Andrews as Gerald Croft, Margaret Leighton as Sheila Birling, Julian Mitchell as Arthur Birling, Marian Spencer as Sybil Birling and Alec Guinness as Eric Birling.

In 1946, the Soviet Union prevented a production of Our Town in the Russian sector of occupied Berlin " on the grounds that the drama is too depressing and could inspire a German suicide wave.

Her next film, A Stolen Life ( 1946 ), was the first and only film that Davis made with her own production company, BD Productions.

*" Making 125, 000 Matches An Hour ", August 1946, Popular Science article on the modern mass production of wooden stem matches

While Follies was a hit, Yolanda bombed at the box office and Astaire, ever insecure and believing his career was beginning to falter, surprised his audiences by announcing his retirement during the production of Blue Skies ( 1946 ), nominating " Puttin ' on the Ritz " as his farewell dance.

The Beetle had marked a significant trend led by Volkswagen, Fiat, and Renault whereby the rear-engine, rear-wheel drive layout had increased from 2. 6 percent of continental Western Europe's car production in 1946 to 26. 6 percent in 1956.

Called the GAZ 11, this more upscale model entered production in 1942 and remained in limited wartime production until 1946.