August 7, 1953 –
The best musical of the Golden Age of Hollywood Musicals (unless you consider Singing in the Rain the best), The Band Wagon, opened on this date.
Betty Comden and Adolph Green made the characters played by Nanette Fabray and Oscar Levant a married couple because they felt that the audiences would not accept a male/female writing team who weren’t married to each other, even though the characters were based on Comden and Green, who were themselves not married to each other.
The Haus of Dcaligari 