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Newspaper

Bridgeport Telegram

Location

Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America

Date

Dec 25, 1956

Page

12

Hollywood Noise Circles Elvis Era Deals and TV Plans

Hollywood rumors swirl around Col Tom Parker offering to buy Love Me Tender from 20th Century Fox for two million dollars profit. Elvis film became a hit despite Parker's bid. Other items note Peggy Lee, Danny Thomas, Richard Green, Patricia Medina reconciliation, Eddie Fisher and Dean Martin, Flamingo Hotel chorus girls, Bert Lancaster and Harold Hecht blocking Borgnine TV, Guy Mitchells possible Covered Wagon role, Phil Silvers CBS dispute, Jeanette MacDonald Nelson Eddy Lux Video Theater return, Zsa Zsa Gabor and George Sanders in Tall Dark Stranger, and various TV and film projects in development.

Hollywood NEA Tom Parker Elvis Presley Fender 20Th Century-Fox Parker Elvis RCA Victor Peggy Lee Danny Thomas Terry Saunders Yul Brynner Richard Robin Hood Grene Patrica Medina England Eddie Fisher Dean Martina Fisher Bean Flamingo Las Vegas The Variety Phil Ernest Borgnine Burt Lancaster Harold Hecht Guy Mitchell Paramount Tony Martin Movietown TV Alley Phil Silvers CBS

Four Girls in Town and Hollywood or Bust at local theaters

Loews Poli screens Four Girls in Town in Technicolor CinemaScope with George Nader Julie Adams Marianne Cook Elsa Martinelli and Gia Scala. Majestic shows The King and Four Queens with Clark Gable in CinemaScope De Luxe Color. Warner Heralded presents Hollywood or Bust a Dean Martin Jerry Lewis comedy musical. Anita Ekberg stars in a cross country VistaVision adventure montage opening sequence.

Universal-International Martin-Lewis Warner Dean Martin Jerry Lewis Hal Wallis Hollywood Merritt Pat Crowley Maxie Ros Anita Ekberg Miss Ekberg Lewis Coar Anita Martin Maxie Great Dane George Nader Julie Adams Mariaene Cook E1sa Martinelli GIA Scala Sydney Chaplin Grant Williams John Gavin Wack Sher Anrom Rosenberg PETIA

Gable Charms Four Girls in The Margaret Filby Story

Ga ble arrives at a ranch with alleged answers to questions and charm wins over four girls played by Eleanor Parker Jean Willes Barbara Nichols and Sara Shane Jo Van Fleet is the mother in law Robert Waterfield produced Raoul Walsh directs the Margaret Filby tale adapted by Filby and Simmons The music by Alex North Also showing at the Majestic The Great American Pastime starring Tom Ewell and Anne Francis.

Gable

Armstrong Rubber reports 1956 earnings rise over prior year

Armstrong Rubber company released fiscal year results showing earnings of 2,797,963 dollars or 1.80 dollars a share on sales of 71,313,421 dollars for the year ended Sept. 30. This compares with 2,734,133 dollars or 1.74 dollars a share on sales of 69,991,866 dollars in 1955. Including its 50 percent owned affiliate Armstrong Tire and Rubber of Natchez Mississippi, sales total 90,121,045 dollars versus 93,788,171 dollars in 1955.

West Haven Armstrong Rubber Company Armstrong Tire and Rubber Company Natchez, Miss

Burglars Loot Durable Factory Outlet Safes in Norwich

Weekend burglars smashed two safes at the Durable Factory Outlet store in Norwich. At least $1,200 was taken from one safe, with the amount from the second not yet determined pending records. Joshua Goldberg reported the $1,200 figure.

Norwich Joshua Goldberg

Theater Time Table At Area Theaters

LOEW S POLI shows Four Girls in Town at 3 00 6 30 and 9 30 MAJESTIC presents King and Four Queens 12 35 3 40 6 45 and 9 50 Great American Pastime 2 05 5 10 and 8 30 WARNER features Kollywood or Bust 2 45 6 05 and 8 30 Secrets of the Reef 1 20 4 40 6 Also Merritt Hollywood or Bust 3 15 6 20 and 9 20 Beverly Sherwood Forest at 1 35 6 30 Disneyland U S A at 2 50 8 Westward Ho 3 30 8 50

Loew's POLI Majestic Warner Merritt Beverly—“Sherwood Forest Disneyland U.S.A Sherwood Forest

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