Art Carney weighs career choices and new records
Broadway marquee column notes Art Carney amid offers from recording, vaudeville, Broadway and summer stock. He turned down Detective Story in Maryland but accepted at least one record, The Song of the Sewer. He plans Connecticut summer with family and hints Stage Show revival possibilities with the Dorsey Brothers. A playful new game called Swayze debuts, inspired by a family long-ago road trip game.
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TV TOPPERS Contestant Groucho Marx Story
A man received a one cent refund check from the government on his income tax. He brought it to the bank where the teller asked if he wanted it heads or tails, in a moment from Groucho Marx's You Bet Your Life NBC segment.
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NBCTV
Ames Brothers Hint Hollywood Visit and Golden Anniversary Tales
The Ames Brothers teased a Hollywood trip while noting two stars celebrating a golden wedding anniversary, remarking they have been married fifty days. The Army McCarthy hearings inspire American amateur songwriters to craft pieces tied to the Washington show, with titles such as Attaboy Roy and This Is the Army Mr Cohin linked to the Treasury’s Guest Star program.
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MacMurray to star in Blue Horizon. Haver news
Fred MacMurray travels to Wyoming in July to film Blue Horizon, Pine-Thomas Lewis and Clark tale with Charlton Heston as Clark. June Haver replaces Maggie McNamara in Black Widow for Twentieth, with Nunully Johnson writing directing and producing. Peggy Ann Garner returns to film, Ginger Rogers set for European comeback with Van Heflin and Gene Tierney top-billed. Ann Dvorak pursues TV project This Is God Country, detailing American industry and resources, while Abbe Lane celebrates Cugat's tour and new film deals. Tony Quinn eyed for Beetle story and Tony postponement talk with Bud Boettinger. Suzan Ball cleared for Chief Crazy Horse with John Lund co-starring. Nat King Cole records benefit for Greenfield Baptist Church. Herm Saunders named Mark VII PR head. Dinah Shore backs Tony Travis Kleefeld. Suez passage looms for ship crew.
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Nunnally Johnson
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Europe
van Heflin
Gene Tierney
Jack
Shelley Winters
Carlos Thompson
Nat “King” Cole
Greenfield Baptist Church
Chicago
Nat
E. J. Cole
Bill Holden
Sportsman's Lodge
Tony Travis
Kleefeld
Cleo Moore
Times The Flame and the Flesh and That Man From Tangiers Review
The Times screens a Mediterranean double bill featuring The Flame and the Flesh with Lana Turner Pier Angeli and Carlos Thompson and Bonar Colleano set in Naples and Tangiers. That Man From Tangiers stars Nils Astor with a Boston socialite stirring North African trouble. The critic notes loud, obvious performances, a wan ending, and a projection miscue leaving the film impressionistic but flawed.
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Theater Time for Thursday at Local Theaters
The Gazette lists Thursday showings for Paramount Iowa State Palace Marion and nearby venues. Paramount presents Executive Suite 2 40, 6 05, 9 35 Riders to the Stars 1 15 4 40 8 10. Iowa screens Indiscretion of an American Wife 1 30 4 25 7 25 10 20 and Drive a Crooked Road 2 50 5 50 8 45. State shows Rhapsody 1 45 4 15 7 00 9 30 shorts 1 10 3 40 6 10 8 50. Times Flame and the Flesh 2 45 6 15 9 40 That are from Tangiers 1 25 4 45 6 18 10. Palace runs All the Brothers Were Valiant 2 55 6 20 9 45 and Diamond Queen 1 35 5 8 25. Marion offers Forbidden 2 4 50 7 30 10 20 and 5 000 Fingers of Dr T 3 45 6 25 9 15. Co R Drive-In shows Turning Point 8 30 11 45 and Mission over Korea 10 15. Twixt Town lists Big Heat 8 11 35 and Savage Mutiny 10 10.
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Stars Shine in Executive Suite at Paramount Today
June Allyson and William Holden headline Executive Suite opening at Paramount with co feature Riders to the Stars starring Richard Carlson. a packed bill highlights classic 1950s studio thrills for moviegoers.
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Paramount Today
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Two Victorian-tinged films provide light evening entertainment
Two loosely held together films mix humor and suspense in a Victorian setting. The grandfatherly check rein adds a gentle touch as the duo delivers moments of charm, though neither picture is a strong hit. Taken together they form a decent, if slightly long, night out.
Indiscretion of an American Wife review by De Sica
Vittorio De Sica delivers Indiscretion of an American Wife a Rome set romance filmed in English. Jennifer Jones shines as a composed woman torn from a relationship at a Rome railroad station as De Sica preserves realism while focusing on intimate human heartbreak.
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Italy
Rome
Jennifer Jones
Romantic tension in Rome set drama features Montgomery Clift
A wealthy wife visiting Rome falls for a charming stranger and considers delaying her return to the United States. Complications mount as her husband and nephew enter the story, driving a restrained but powerful tragedy amid tasteful, emotional performances. Mickey Rooney appears in a separate co feature about a driver facing deception.
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