Janet Blair Man" (both 1948), but was dropped by Columbia and did not return to pictures for several years. She made a rare dramatic appearance in the British horror film "Night of the Eagle" (1962). She played the wife of Tony Randall in the comedy "Boys' Night Out", a motion picture released in the same year, which starred James Garner and Kim Novak. In 1950, Blair took the lead role of Nellie Forbush in the U.S touring production of the stage musical "South Pacific", making more than 1,200 performances in three years. "[I] never missed a performance", she noted proudly. During the
Nellie Casman In 1982, the musical comedy, “The Showgirl”, which she wrote with Steinberg was performed by the Shalom Yiddish Musical Comedy Theater at Town Hall starring Mary Soreanu. Following Steinberg’s death in 1938, Casman married two more times including marriage to chess master Jacob Bernstein. She died in New York City. Nellie Casman Nellie Casman (1896?–1984) was an actress and singer in Yiddish theater. She was born in Proskurov, Russia, and moved to the United States in the early 1900s.; She lived in Philadelphia where her father was a "hazzan". Casman showed such talent as an actress when a child, the