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After the opening of the flop Arturo Ui, director Tony Richardson (slightly inebriated), stopped at the table of the star. Jimmy Coco, pumped the hand of Jimmy's housewife sister, Lucia, and enthused: "You were great in my show tonight" . . .
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Don Murray attended Libby Morris' recent Jimmy's opening, where he met a friend and they discussed a party they'd been to. "Your wife was the lady of the night," the friend gushed to Murray, then realized his blooper and amended. "I mean the belle of the ball" . . . Director Gil Cates has a dreadful memory for names. He once said to an actor at a party: "Mike (Kellin), I saw you in Pipe Dream. I love the way you sing." "Really? I have a voice like wood," Charles Bronson retorted gruffly.

In Alex Cohen's opinion, the worst faux pas a producer can make is to miss the opening of his own show. That happened to him once, in 1961, when he was snowbound in Cleveland. To compensate, and apologize, he had a plumber replace the pipes of the water fountains with French champagne - in tribute to Yves Montand, his French star . . . Leonard Sillman, who staged his first production 40 years ago, firmly maintains his greatest faux pas was his decision to become a producer.

Shelley Winters once made a faux-pas to avoid a bigger one. She hostessed a dinner party for Amb. Adlai Stevenson, seated the guests, excused herself and went home. She can't remember names (offstage), and thought it would be more diplomatic to be absent than to refer to someone incorrectly . . . Cyril Ritchard, however, had problems onstage during The Pleasure of His Company. He couldn't recall Cornelia Otis Skinner's stage name, and called her by a different one every night.
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