Do It This Way Dad Dick Powell Directs By Son
Hollywood report on Dick Powell guiding his son Norman Powell in a Zane Grey Theater segment at Four Star Productions. Norman, 27, rose from second assistant director to production manager while Powell recalls their early friction and pride in his son’s career path.
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Stu Whitman Gable Like Push For a Young Clark Gable
Hollywood reports Stuart Whitman is being groomed as a new Clark Gable. A Fox executive says Whitman will be given steady exposure through varied roles, mirroring Gable’s rise. Whitman tours Ireland and Italy for films Murder Inc The Mark The Fiercest Heart and St Francis of Assisi while wife and family stay with him.
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Clark Gable
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Murder, Inc
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Connie Stevens Expands Sweater Collection In Hollywood
Hollywood star Connie Stevens received a dozen new sweaters from Italy. The Warner Bros TV singer actress has a large hat collection and designed about half of her many hats, but she has not yet designed sweaters.
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Natalie Wood and Bob Wagner Buy Brownstone in NYC
Natalie Wood and Bob Wagner purchase a Brownstone in New York City while keeping their Beverly Hills residence. The move signals dual-coast ties as the actors maintain homes on both coasts for future projects and family needs.
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Radio and TV Highlights Tonight
A list of tonight’s programs across stations WPFB WHIO WCPO WLW WLWT KRCO and WKRC includes basketball Roy Als vs New York and a Browns at St Louis game. Celebrity golf Ray Bolger vs Sam Snead. Army Navy College Bowl. Interviews with Pace Killian on Meet the Press. Twenty Century on World War II home life. Robert Louis Stevenson tale The Black Arrow. Dennis the Menace treehouse threat. Fat Sullivan hosts Tony Martin Alberghetti Wayne Shuster Birgit Nilsson. Warshals Dan Troop murder charge. Arabian Nights special. Gene Tierney comeback. Jack Benny guests Joey Bishop. Candid Camera traffic excuses. Winston Churchill debut with Richard Burton narration.
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Robert Louis Stevenson
England
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Dennis the Menace
Treehouse Threat
Mr. Wilson
Fat Sullivan
Tony Martin
Anna Maria Alberghetti
Wayne and Shuster
Birgit Nilsson
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Warshal
Dan Troop
Janet Blair
Louis Nye
John “Mr
Richard Burton
the Statesman
Gary Merri
Music Themes To Aid Churchill In New TV Series
New York columnist Cynthia Lowry reports composer Richard Rodgers on the role of music in ABCs Churchill documentary Winston Churchill The Valiant Years premiering Monday night. Rodgers stresses three elements words pictures and music and notes his long career in scoring. He explains how music heightens mood from romance to tension and how the Churchill project requires varied themes across interviews and wartime footage.
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Winston Churchill
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Arthur Penn On Directing All The Way Home
New York actor Arthur Penn discusses directing philosophy and his role as translator between performers and audience. He recalls Broadway success with Two for the Seesaw and The Miracle Worker and previews All the Way Home at the Belasco Theater this Wednesday. Penn emphasizes collaboration with producer Fred Coe and his aim to guide each performer to fit the main purpose of a scene.
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Spartacus set scene includes Laughton and Ustinov encounter
On the Spartacus set Peter Ustinov and Charles Laughton stand together when a visitor confuses them with other actors. Ustinov jokes that she will apologize later, and she does. Dorothy Provine is noted as spotted by Warner Bros. executive Sally Balano after college theater.
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Connie Stevens Pursues Hawaii Busman Holiday After Susan Slade
Actress Connie Stevens will take a bus man's holiday in Hawaii after completing the film Susan Slade late this year. The project wraps up production before year end and Stevens plans time off on the islands.
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Hawaii
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Senta Berger Breaks Movie Sex Stereotypes in Vienna Debut
In Vienna Senta Berger age 19 shocks Hollywood norms by acting depth. She stars opposite Richard Widmark in The Secret Ways, rejecting a Hollywood proposition as too forward. Berger trained at Reinhard Seminar and became one of the youngest permanent members of Der Josefstadt theater.
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Senta the Viennese beauty lands film role after theater success
For two years she performed at twelve dollars a week in top stage productions. Her striking figure drew many film offers but she chose training over money at her age and still bikes to the theater. Widmark discovered her in the Josefstadt Theatre and cast her as Elsa in a movie based on an Alistair Maclean novel about espionage. Senta, playing a woman of easy virtue, blocks an American adventurer’s mission behind the Iron Curtain.
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Lionel Bart Rise From Washboard To British Music Idol
London profile of Lionel Bart at 29 as he turns down a 2 million Hollywood offer for Oliver, plans to produce his own film, write a film musical for Judy Garland, direct a straight play, and launch his own publishing house. Bart, once a washboard player, now runs multiple shows including Tonight Josephine and an English folk opera Butz while composing hits with one finger theory. He is hailed by Noel Coward as the best English songwriter since Coward.
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TVs Chores Are Rugged But Pay Well
Hollywood AP report on Joanne Dru in the TV series Guestward Ho. She plays a New York model who helps run a dude ranch, doing chores from cooking on a wood stove to milking cows and mending fences. Dru notes doubles handle tougher work but asks where else she gets paid so well for chores.
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Joanne Dru
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Joanne
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Dorothy Provine Fired Over 36 Pound Coat in The Roaring 20s
Dorothy Provine was let go after filming a musical number in Warner Bros The Roaring 20s segment due to wearing a 36 pound bacoon coat. The ill fitting costume weighed about 35 pounds and affected her performance.
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Hysteria Scene By Doris Day Was Real Thing
HOLLYWOOD AP In Midnight Lace Doris Day delivers an Oscar caliber hysteria moment that was involuntary Producer Marty Melcher reveals Day’s frenzy nearly overwhelmed her and the director kept rolling as she spoke her true feelings not the script, leaving the scene in the final cut.
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Nolan Aherne Join Star List In Susan Slade
Hollywood reports Nolan and Aherne signed by Warner Bros to star in Susan Slade alongside Troy Donahue Connie Stevens and Dorothy McGuire Nolan will play a mining engineer and Aherne an international businessman The film to be shot in northern California mainly San Francisco and Carmel with Delmer Daves directing and producing
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Brian Aherne
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Troy Donahue
Connie Stevens
Dorothy McGure
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Robert Conrad Plans New Car Visit to Chicago Next Month
Robert Conrad will pick up a new car for himself during a trip to Chicago to visit his mother next month.
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