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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1955
Page
3
Columbia Pictures plans to sue Sid Caesar next month over a spoof of From Here to Eternity that the studio says infringes its copyright. Tom O Malley and Bob Cunniff report on the dispute and potential legal action in Hollywood.
A compact list of TV channel lineups and programs across cities including Cedar Rapids Waterloo Ames Davenport and Des Moines. It outlines show titles times and host names such as Ted Mack Bob Crosby Rin Tin Tin and Burns and Allen among others.
The Academy award winner Eternity faces a lawsuit not to defend the film but to shield future project ideas from a Caesar or Gleason spoof. Hollywood figures fear a TV spoof could derail a big money maker and harm the studio's prestige. The article notes tension over creative control and public image in Glamour City.
The Gazette lists today’s showings with Paramount Iowa State Palace Marion and other venues. Notable films include Not as a Stranger Bring Your Smile Along Night of the Hunter Bullet for Joey Underwater Loophole Daddy Long Legs New Orleans Uncensored Country Girl Battle and Blackboard Jungle plus stage titles and shorts.
Hollywood reports screen star Robert Francis aged 25 died in a Beechcraft Bonanza crash near Lockheed air terminal along with actress Ann Russell 24 and agent Irving G Meyers 36. The trio were on a Santa Monica outing. engine sputtered at about 150 feet, plane hit a parking lot and burned. Francis had been learning to fly without studio knowledge.
NBC announces a five fold rise in color broadcasts from seven to nine hours monthly to 37 to 41 hours. Robert W. Sarnoff states RCA NBC aim to make color television a mass medium as soon as possible. All World Series games in New York will be shown in color. A record 2,291,000 marriages occurred in 1946 nationwide.
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