Ingrid Bergman Debut Leads Off Selznick Series
Ingrid Bergman stars in the first Selznick Festival film shown on network TV with ABC and Channel 48 presenting four Tuesday nights. Bergman’s breakout film Intermezzo leads off the lineup, followed by Dorothy McGuire in The Spiral Staircase and later Jennifer Jones with Joseph Cotten in a romantic drama.
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Hollywood
David O. Selznick
Altho
Stockholm
Ingrid Bergman
Leslie Howard
Miss Scarlet
Selznick
New York
Joan Fontaine
Joseph Cotten
Gregory Peck
Dorthy McGuire
ABC
Channel 48
Intermezza
Dorothy McGuire
Jennifer Jones
Lee Ingrid
Dusty Hoffmans Soloway Faces a World in Crisis
Georgie Soloway, a highly successful New York rock composer, contemplates a drastic leap from a Fifth Avenue triplex, though he appears to own the world with 64 songs in a year and multiple campaigns and jingles shaping his public life.
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New York
Georgie Soloway
Dustin Hoffman
Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me
A Broadway style comedy by Herb Gardner examines fame and loneliness through Georgie the pop hit maker. The piece blends wit with a hollow top tier life, featuring a houseful of advisors and the threat of a nagging reputation.
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Georgie
Harry Kellerman
Herb Gardner
Broadway
Manhattan
Gardner
Hoffman Eyes Comic Role as Harpo Marx
Dustin Hoffman hopes to star in a farce as a Marx Brother, preferably Harpo, and says he would avoid funny lines while keeping the audience in hysterics. He spoke from his production office on West 56th Street, discussing his smoking stance and recent film Straw Dogs.
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Earl Wilson
New York
Dustin Hoffman
Harpo
Dustin
W. 56Th St
Alan King
Cornwall
London
See Hoffman
Vision Tells Story Hitchcock Believes Vision Tells Story
Alfred Hitchcock, 71, in London for a new suspense film, says cinema is sight first and sound second. He plans Frenzy with Anthony Shaffer, adapting Goodbye Picadilly Farewell Leicester Square, and critiques Love Story Easy Rider while praising Truffaut Bunuel.
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Bernard Weinraub
New York Times
London
Dostoyevsky
Poe
Alfred Hitchcock
Hitchcock
Anthony Shaffer
Picadilly
Leicester Square
America
South
Truffaut
Bunuel
TV drama finds new life on public television
Noncommercial TV, led by NET in New York and executive producer Jack Venza, has become a steady source of serious drama. Since 1969 NET Playhouse has aired works from Ibsen to Williams, including Jesus: A Passion Play for Americans and Ceremony of Innocence, expanding dramatic reach beyond commercial networks.
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John J. O’connor
New York Times News Service
New York
Studio One
Playhouse 90
NET
Venza
Columbia Broadcasting System
NET Playhouse
Marya Mannes
Ronald Ricman
The
Open Theater
Top Ten Best Selling Records Of The Week
Cash Box Magazine nationwide survey lists the week’s top ten hits led by It Dont Come Easy by Starr and Itll Meet You Halfway by the Partridge Family. Also charting are Its Too Late by King Rainy Days And Mondays by Carpenters Want Ads by the Honey Cones Brown Sugar by the Rolling Stones Sweet And Innocent by Osmond Treat Her Like A Lady by Cornelius Brothers And Sister Rose Double Lovin by the Osmonds Dont Knock My Love by Pickett.
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Cash Box Magazine
Starr
Partridge Family
King
Carpenters “Want
Rolling Stones
Osmond
Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose
Double Lovin
the Osmonds
Pickett
Classic Films Hit On Sunday
Alabama’s Educational Television Network airs Cinema Showcase weekends sponsored by the Department of Education. At 3:30 p.m. this Sunday 1934 classic David Harum will be shown starring Will Rogers with Louise Dresser and Evelyn Venable. Will Rogers Month is June with The County Chairman and Steamboat Round The Bend previously shown. Each film costs 200 dollars under a state contract, prompting a Saturday and Sunday schedule.
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Alvin Benn
Alabama
Department of Education
David Harum
Will Rogers
Rogers
Louise Dresser
Evelyn Venable
James Turnipseed
State Department of Education
Turnipseed
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