Michener Adapts Pacific Tales for TV Paradise Series
Pulitzer winner James A. Michener creates Adventures in Paradise an ABC TV drama about a young American sailor in the South Seas and Asia. Produced by Martin Manulis the hourlong weekly series premieres next September with Michener adapting his own stories for television while continuing to travel the Pacific for material.
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Stockwell Cardinal Star in Compulsion Film Role
Dean Stockwell, once a child star, is cast as one of the two Chicago teens in the Meyer Levin story Compulsion. He reprises the role from the Broadway run and joins Orson Welles, Diane Varsi, and Bradford Dillman in the CinemaScope drama directed by Richard Fleischer, opening at Paramount on Sunday. Stockwell insisted on precise interpretation of his part, earning respect from colleagues.
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A dense listing of daytime and evening programs across networks with times for Lucy, Price is Right, World Turns, News, Weather, sports, and specials. It notes Paul Ford starring in Old Man Webster in fall, with production details and a London newspaper quip about TV Westerns.
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