MacMurray Named TV Father of Year
Fred MacMurray, star of My Three Sons, is chosen by the National Father's Day Committee as Television Father of the Year for his warm family portrayal and community standing. The article notes his film and stage beginnings, marriages, adopted children, Brentwood home, Sonoma ranch, and his chairmanship of the National Children's Cardiac Hospital.
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Fred MacMurray
Bill Frawley
Tim Considine
Don Grady
Stanley Livingston
California
George Olsen
Gus Arnheim
MacMurray
California Collegians
Sue
Bob
June Haver
Katie
Laurie
Brentwood
Beverly Hills
Sonoma County
San Francisco
National Children’s Cardiac Hospital
Debbie Reynolds Angry Over Location Plans in How the West Was Won
Hollywood chatter notes Debbie Reynolds regrets two four week location shoots restricting time with family. Kim Novak prefers New York life over Hollywood while expectations loom for Ruth and Elana Eden at 20th Fox. Henry Fonda to film this year. Jill St John comments on acting ambitions. TV debate formats reshape next season with CBS and NBC schedule changes.
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Kim Novak
Hollywood
New York
Ben- Hur
Haya Hayareet
20Th Fox
Ruth
Elana Eden
Bill Holden
Virginia
Walter Wanger
Alexandria
Cleopatra
CBS
NBC
Imaginative Westerns Suggested to Refresh TV fare
In New York a critic notes lack of creativity in new Westerns and offers six imagined concepts. Proposals include This Is Your Saddle featuring a different cowboy weekly, The Untouch Stables with cattle baron clashes, Candid Spur hidden camera rodeo, The Bushwhackers family situation comedy, The Law and Counselor a prairie lawyer series, and Ive Got a Six Gun a Western panel game show.
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NBC
Whispering Smith
Rudi Murphy
Gay Mitchell
Denver
Slim Ness
Slim
Dorothy Collins
Tales of Wells Fargo cast expansion announced
The series will follow its normal pattern next fall by expanding Tales of Wells Fargo to an hour. William Demarest and Jack Ging join regulars Dale Robertson, who has starred since the show began.
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Wells Fargo
William Demarest
Jack Ging
Dale Robertson
Keen Blade of Satire Scores Touche on TV
Alan King lampoons television at the White House News Photographers Association dinner. He mocks early shows test patterns weather Madison Avenue and Sandy Hook, plus soap operas and excessive ads. He jokes FCC Chairman Newton Minow’s remarks to broadcasters.
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Washington
NEA
Alan King
White House
Madison Avenue
Sandy Hook
America
Florida
FCC
Newton Minow
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Walt Disney
Fred Mac Murray
Debbie
MGM
Lawrence Durell
Justine
Navarone
Jill St. John
Henry Fonda
Fred
Fred Astaire
London
John Hay Whitney
Court of St. James
The
Austin Daily Herald
Debbie Reynolds
Maw
Paw
Montana Hills
Man
Jed
Ned
Ted
Deirdre
the Law and Counselor
Roger Prodger
West
Long Shoreman
Kid Gloves
Ariz
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