Episode 45 – 1964

David and Katherine look back 60 years ago to a year that was full of exciting works from Al Hirschfeld: 1964!

Fiddler on the Roof, Hello Dolly!, Funny Girl and more premiered on Broadway; My Fair Lady and The Best Man hit the big screen; and Hirschfeld introduces two new series of drawings: “Famous Feuds” and “Unlikely Casting”.

Follow along with the show notes to view the works mentioned in this episode:

Bedtime Story, 1964

What’s My Line

David Niven

The Best Man, 1964

The Best Man (“Movies to Remember” Series), 1979

The Best Man (Broadway), 1960

My Fair Lady (Film), 1964

The Train, 1964

Tribute to Harold Mirisch, 1964

The Yellow Rolls Royce, 1964

“Famous Feuds” Series

Famous Feuds: Mona Lisa and Rembrandt’s Aristotle, 1963

Famous Feuds: The Beatles vs. the Singing Nun, 1964

Famous Feuds: Elia Kazan and Lee Strasberg, 1964

Jimmy Durante as Alfred Smith, 1937

Mary Pickford as Adolf Hitler, 1937

“Be A Television Writer, Earn No Money”, 1964

S.J. Perelman with Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, 1964

Walter Kerr, 1979

Alec Guinness in Dylan, 1964

Carol Channing in Hello, Dolly!, 1964

Barbra Streisand in Funny Girl with Fanny Brice Photo, 1964

Original Cast of Fiddler on the Roof, 1964  

Josephine Baker, 1964

Richard Rodgers

The King & I Revival, 1964

The Merry Widow Revival, 1964

Porgy & Bess Revival, 1964

Donald Pleasance in Poor Bitos”, 1964

King Lear, 1964

Hamlet, 1964

Bajour, 1964

Joe Gould, 1941

Tiny Alice, 1964

Ready When You Are, C.B., 1964

“Unlikely Casting” Series for Playbill, 1964

David Merrick

Fade Out Fade In Poster, 1964

Carol Burnett

Moon Over Buffalo, 1995

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