He developed Electrical Porcelain with transmission engineers at GE. His family continued to work at Building 68 in Schenectady for decades. William's son Frank Cermak advanced insulator design into the mid 20th century.
When Rex Harrison accepted his Academy Award for My Fair Lady (1964), he dedicated it to his two fair ladies, Audrey Hepburn and Julie Andrews both who had played Eliza Doolittle with him.
18-year-old theater actress Shanice Williams will play Dorothy in NBC's The Wiz Live! airing in December. 18-year-old theater actress Shanice Williams will play Dorothy in NBC's The Wiz Live! airing in December. The network held open auditions in New York in June and said it plucked Williams out of hundreds of applicants hoping to play the Kansas farm girl who is swept to the land of Oz during a tornado.