Tommy had begun to produce as early as 1944 in Milford, New Jersey.
He wrote the story ten years after the party, while producer at McLean, Virginia in 1951. A program from that season:
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| Program courtesy Ed Gnys |
HIS SHORT STORY
"Saturday Night" (below) was Tommy Brent's only literary effort, a tale about a West Village party he attended in his third week in NYC in 1941 when he was 19 and still aspired to be an actor.
Tommy had begun to produce as early as 1944 in Milford, New Jersey.
He wrote the story ten years after the party, while producer at McLean, Virginia in 1951. A program from that season:
The Countess was Ruth Yorck, and she and TB remained close friends until her sudden (and dramatic) death in January, 1966, two years before he opened TBTS. Her Times obit and the blurb from one of her book jackets:
Tommy had begun to produce as early as 1944 in Milford, New Jersey.
He wrote the story ten years after the party, while producer at McLean, Virginia in 1951. A program from that season: