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.In 1961, the St. Mark’s Playhouse Off Broadway offered the U.S. premiere of a work by French playwright Jean Genet starring a bunch of unknowns.
The group included James Earl Jones, Cicely Tyson, Maya Angelou, Louis Gossett, Roscoe Lee Browne, Godfrey Cambridge, Raymond St.
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