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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1961
Page
6
New York AP/UPI reports Santa faced a toy overload after trading his sleigh for a compact model. A TV network executive crafted a pyramid blurb pattern, compressing Santa's load into the sleigh with room to spare and promising a New Year's Eve reel.
The listing shows Book-in-Hand Players presenting Charles Dickens Christmas Carol at 7:30. Paramount screens Flight of the Lost Balloon at 1:10, 4, 6:50, 9:45, Black Pit of Dr M at 2:45, 5:40, 8:35. RKO Iowa shows Greatest Show on Earth at 1:15, 5:45, 10 and Li'l Abner at 3:50, 8:20. World presents Three Faces of Eve at 1:15, 4:35, 7:50 and Sink the Bismarck at 2:45, 6:05, 9:20. Times lists Weekend with Lulu at 1:10, 3:55, 6:45, 9:30 and a Story at 2:40, 5:20. Thursday matinee Wonders of Aladdin at 1:10, 2:55, 4:45 with shorts at 1, 2:45, 4:30. Marion shows Tomboy and the Champ at 12:55, 2:55, 5:00, 7:00, 9:00. Hopes 30 at 2:30, 4:30, 6:30.
Hollywood AP Barbara Stanwyck and Pat Boone won Golden Apple awards for the most cooperative stars of 1961 while Marlon Brando and Natalie Wood received the club’s Sour Apple for least cooperative. Runners up included Amanda Blake Shirley Jones Jayne Mansfield Connie Stevens Troy Donahue Charlton Heston Roger Smith and Robert Conrad.
Errol Flynn heir estate valued at over 1.8 million in court papers with assets spanning Jamaica British West Indies Geneva Canada and Hollywood. The will bequeaths the bulk to widow Patrice Wymore Flynn.
Ingrid Bergman faces a Hollywood comeback on the Paramount lot in The Second Mrs. Ashland, reuniting with her daughter Jenny Ann who recently moved from San Francisco to New York after a divorce. Sol Schwartz of Columbia Pictures confirms Robert Rossen will direct two films, Lilith and Coco Beach, inspired by Brinkley broadcasts.
Sid Luft has rented a house for Judy Garland to occupy upon her return from Berlin and London. Garland plans to make her home here again while working on a new film project, marking a possible reunion after their earlier Rift.
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