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New York City Tribute
| Title: | On the Town (1949), d. Stanley Donen |
| Starring: | Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis |
| Summary: | Drama among the skyscraper canyons and newspaper empires of mid-century New York, where an unscrupulous Broadway columnist, J.J. Hunsecker, deplores his sister’s romance with a jazz musician and employs a hungry, ambitious press agent to break things up. The gritty black-and-white look defines an era. |
| Dress: | Like a bulldog reporter fresh from the mean streets of ‘50s Manhattan. Rumpled gray suits and fedoras for the men, pencil skirts and pearls for the ladies. |
| Music: | Period lounge music. Bossa nova was just breaking out in 1957. Pull tracks from Peggy Lee, Nat King Cole, Chet Baker, or Franck Pourcel. |
| Food: | What newshounds eat at their desks on deadline: deli sandwiches, pretzels and beer nuts. |
| Drink: | Manhattans, of course. Or Old Fashioneds, Rob Roys, bourbon on the rocks – picture yourselves on stools in a dark, smoky West Side saloon on a midnight in 1957. |
| Farr Notes: | Pass around this ready-to-print leaflet on On the Town More from John on On the Town |
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