Vanished films reflect altered movie economics
Hollywood faces a growing trend of shelving and selling films to television as production and distribution costs soar. The Picasso Summer was rescued by CBS for a fraction of its cost, while projects like The Phynx and The Adventures of Gerrard collapsed after failed test shows or scheduling.
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Bob Thomas
Associated Press
Hollywood
CBS
Albert Finney
Yvette Mimieux
Warner Bros
Ruby Keeler
Johnny Weissmuller
Pat O’brien
Dorothy Lamour
Indianapolis
Gerrard
Italy
Peter McEnery
Claudia Cardinale
Eli Wallach
Jack Hawkins
United Artists
Kirk Douglas
Michael Douglas
Brenda Vaccaro
New York
Columbia
Networks Start Springhousecleaning
NBC and CBS dropped five pilot programs Friday night shrinking the lineup in prime time for feature films. The rest of the entertainment consisted largely of reruns as networks began a season cleanup.
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Cynthia Lowry
New York
NBC
CBS
New Mexico
Gomer Pyle
Walter Cronkite
KBIM
Movie stars’ families and CBS pilots color Hollywood chatter
Gena Rowlands recalls son Nick preferring basketball to acting and John Cassavetes gifting a professional basketball court. The piece notes the couple’s marriage, career harmony, and adds tidbits on peers like Sammy Davis Jr and Lloyd Bridges. It also reviews CBS pilots Ghost Story, Moving On, The Living End and Oh Nurse, critiquing their weak finales.
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Hollywood
Gena Rowlands
John Cassavetes
Nicholas
Gena
John
Nick
Wisconsin
Mark Twain
Cassavetes
Minnie and Moskowitz
CBS
Stirling Oliphant
Coed College
Israel gets first dance library from American Israeli foundation
The America Israel Cultural Foundation will present Tel Aviv University with a comprehensive dance library including books magazines paintings photographs drawings films and slides. The collection will be accessible to the public only for reference and not for circulation.
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Dance Library
New York
The
America-Israel Cultural Foundation
Tel Aviv University
Israel
Choir to Give Pre Easter Concert at Lu Ross State U
Alpine Texas 40 voice Concert Choir at Lu Ross State University will present its annual Pre Easter Concert at 8 15 p m Thursday March 23 in the Main Auditorium Education Building to benefit the music scholarship fund. Ross Hise acting chairman says choir will perform sacred folk and popular selections. Ross students and faculty admitted free with cards. others pay 1 for adults 50 cents for children Eddie Carlton freshman vocal major from Henrietta will be the featured soloist accompaniment by Kathy Peters Pecos junior
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Alpine
Tex
Lu Ross State University
Ross Hise
Hise
Bul Ross
Eddie Carlton
Henrietta
Kathy Peters
Pecos
Nimoy Beats Hoffman for TV Stardom Say NBC Executive
Stanley Robertson, NBC vice president, explains two audiences exist with TV and movie stars. Leonard Nimoy draws stronger TV ratings despite Dustin Hoffman’s bigger movie fame. Barbara Taylor Bradford notes TV shapes women’s decorating trends and lists Hollywood homes as style exemplars.
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Stanley Robertson
NBC
Hollywood
NEA
O.K
Leonard Nimoy
Dustin Hoffman
Hoffman
Nimoy
United States
Robertson
Los Angeles Sentinel
Ebony Magazine
Barbara Taylor Bradford
England
Lew Ayres Remains a Questing Film Icon and Conscientious Objector
From All Quiet on the Western Front to The Biscuit Eater, Lew Ayres reflects 43 years in Hollywood as a conscientious objector and lifelong learner. He discusses religion, science, and art, recalls wartime service as a medic, and notes his focus on family with his third wife Diana.
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Carol Carothers
A. J. Carothers
Mary Ann Mobley
Ray Stark
Los Angeles
Pamela Sue Martin
Darren O’connor
Darren
Joe
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Lew Ayres
America
Ayres
Pacific
Shiloh
San Francisco International
Hawaii Five-0
Diana
Lola Lane
Ginger Rogers
Justin Bret Ayres
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