People, Mar. 11, 1974

Just ten minutes before the show was to go on downstairs in the Waldorf-Astoria Empire Room, diminutive Joel Grey, 41, was still puttering around naked in his room. The photographer was getting nervous. He had been promised a picture of the 5-ft. 2-in. star wearing his black Ultrasuede tuxedo alongside a life-size poster advertising the entertainer's two-week Manhattan engagement. But Joel's wife Jo was unfazed. "Why don't you take the picture now?" she suggested. So the camera clicked and Sharp Dresser Joel was caught for posterity wearing only a bath towel.

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