Tim Gray Senior Vice PresidentTo celebrate Variety’s 115th anniversary, we went to the archives to see how some of Hollywood’s biggest stars first landed in the pages of our magazine.
Read more from the archives here.Politics makes strange bedfellows, but so does showbiz. Carl Reiner and Bob Fosse became showbiz powerhouses starting in the 1950s and ’60s in their very different worlds, so the combination seems incongruous.
However, in the early days of their careers, both appeared in the revue “Call Me Mister,” which opened at the Los Angeles Biltmore in 1947, with actor-activist Melvyn Douglas among the producers.Variety’s review said there were “some funny sketches, ear-catching tunes and neat terp routines.” (Terp was Variety slanguage,.
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