Milland recalls 165 film career and early firing
Hollywood icon Ray Milland, now Oscar winner for The Lost Weekend, reflects on being fired early in his career for lack of promise, his 165 film roles, and a long marriage to Muriel Weber. He discusses his start as a marksman, his Wales origins, and becoming an American citizen 38 years ago.
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College professor sets Shakespeare to music in western adaptation
Texas professor Dr. Stanley Hamilton of North Texas State University created a musical version of A Comedy of Errors with Spanish Mexican girls, a gunman sheriff, and an 1870s California mining town. He entered the piece in the American College Theater Festival. Paul Revere, a key figure of the American Revolution, rode on horseback at age 40 in 1775.
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Everettts Build A Dream Home In Earthquake Zone
Chad and Shelby Everett rebuild after a California fire to a home valued around a quarter of a million dollars. They demand extreme solid construction with 18 and 16 foot ceilings, five eighth inch steel reinforcement, and a 40 foot center beam. Builder Bob Tunney coordinates the project amid praise for his methodical planning and safety focus. Chad Everett, star of Medical Center, expands his family and career with new work, a television segment, a music album, and a poetry volume.
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Wagner Produces First Film Feature With Bette Davis
Robert Wagner, producer and actor, markets a 90 minute feature to serve as a pilot for a Bette Davis series. The film Madame Sin was shot in London and Scotland and will air on ABC's Movie of the Weekend. Davis plays the Eurasian femme fatale as Wagner also acts in the feature.
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Television schedule highlights from Pecos Enterprise listing
A mid January 1972 Pecos Enterprise TV page lists daily programs on KMID TV Channel 2 and KBIM with time slots for NBC CBS and local programming. It notes upcoming midwinter vacation for the boss and a closing line about the boss leaving for two weeks.
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Hollywood special unimaginative ABC midseason feature
AP writer blasts ABCs Hollywood The Dream Factory as an hour long, unimaginative program built from MGM bits. Dick Cavett delivers flat narration while nostalgia clips showcase old stars and films, offering promotional glimpses rather than a cohesive study of a bygone era.
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Movie Queens Rare As Box Office Stars In Poll
Hollywood writer notes the 40th Motion Picture Herald ranking shows John Wayne as the top attraction with Ali MacGraw the sole woman in the top 10, highlighting a long history of male-dominated star power and limited leading female roles in cinema.
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Radio dramatization of War of the Worlds panics Buffalo listeners
A modern airings of the H G Wells tale triggered a flood of calls to police and local stations in Buffalo New York despite a five minute preface explaining the program. The incident echoes the famous 1938 Martian invasion broadcast and its public noisemaking.
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