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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1959
Page
13
Hollywood profile of Jean Willes, a prolific TV actor who earns residuals from reruns. Describes her career in westerns and detective shows, her hook with viewers, and her steady temperament on set. Notes her 300 plus half hour dramas and industry reputation.
Radio and TV highlights list programs across WHIO WKRC WLW and WPFB with religious musical concerts dramas and talk shows. Notable items include Bach and Haydn from the Salt Lake Tabernacle Choir, Last Word with Evan Hunter and Marguerite Higgins, Face the Nation interview with James Hoffa, and police/legal themed drama stars.
Hollywood observations note top executives under pressure misreading the sponsor and the audience. Notable names like Bob Hope Jerry Lewis Red Skelton Ed Wynn and Milton Berle face burnout, illness, or career shifts as TV and film demand rise, while juggernauts like Benny Marx and Durante symbolize resilience.
The piece notes Skelton and peers arranging the sponsors booth and joking about comic bosses and easy work. Marx quips that they are all dead but walking, Durante cites a lack of money but a ticking heart, and a historical line recalls the flag unfurled at George Washington's Middlebrook camp in June 1777.
Radnor Pat Stefan Hatos, producer of It Could Be You, spends weeks arranging a reunion after a mother asks him to reunite her daughter with her fiance, a soldier in Germany. He spends two weeks and hundreds of dollars only to hear the GI say he does not want to marry.
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