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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1964
Page
2
A jumble of Hollywood figures and events describes holiday mingle scenes. Joan Crawford Yasmina and Yvette Mimieux appear with mentions of Sidney Brody lists and parties. Richard Chamberlain Dorothy Provine planned TV duet.
Paramount presents Goodbye Charlie with showings at 1 15, 3 15, 5 20, 7 25 and 9 35. RKO IOWA features Sex and the Single Girl at 2 55, 6 20, 9 50 and Bullet for a Bad Man at 1 35, 5, 8 30. WORLD stacks Disorderly Orderly at 1 35, 3 40, 5 40, 7 50, 9 55 with shorts at 1 03, 5 10 and 9 20. TIMES lists Viva Las Vegas at 1 05, 4, 7, 9 55 and Tamahine at 2 30, 5 25, 8 25. MARION schedules I d Rather Be Rich at 7 35, 9 50 and shorts at 7, 9 10. Wednesday matinee Five Weeks in a Balloon at 10 25, 12 20, 2 15 and shorts at 10 15, 12 05, 2.
Moscow crowds applaud a Russian version of My Fair Lady called Maya Prekasnaya Lady. The American owners claim piracy and the piece features bold Cockney dancing while some lyrics appear altered or replaced with songs from Gigi. CBS and vice president Michael Burke say Soviet authorities did not request or obtain rights.
Burke says CBS lawyers prepared a protest to Moscow but Russians do not sign international copyright conventions and typically ignore protests. Tickets for the show sold out weeks in advance as audiences seek a departure from The Merry Widow.
Louis Armstrong, nicknamed Satchmo, flew from Japan to Corpus Christi to perform at a coming-out party for Grace and Helen Ford, daughters of millionaire lawyer Edmund J. Ford. The event attracted one of Armstrongs most lucrative dates, per his booking agent.
ABC-TV aired a 90 minute U N themed fantasy drama based on Dickens to promote world peace and aid. Rod Serling wrote it and Joe Mankiewicz produced directed with Sterling Hayden as a modern Scrooge. Telson Foundation funded the five network specials amid CBS NBC CBS refusals.
The passage recalls Steve Lawrence as the ghost of Christmas Past portraying soldiers on a coffin ship returning Hayden to Hiroshima after the atom bomb. Pat Hingle as Christmas Present mocks the wealthy at Hayden’s table. Robert Shaw as Christmas Future shows a world ruined by war due to escalating silence between nations.
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