Word: actor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Raymond Burr, 42, gives Erie Stanley Gardner s invincible legal Eye Perry Mason, the first TV face he has had since the reports of his cases started spraying from the presses (62 books in 26 years) Sad-eyed, spade-jowled Actor Burr fits Mason to the last wrinkle of his frown-tor the simple reason that Author Gardner never yet has got around to describing his hero. A so-so player for ten years in Hollywood, Burr closed in on Mason with the tenacity of a man who has landed the big role at last. He studied courtroom procedure, lectured...
...script has been knowledgeably written by Playwright Lee, and directed by Joseph (The Matchmaker) Anthony with a sure sense of the theatrical moment. Actor Franciosa gives much the most coherent performance of his film career and he is fairly well supported by Dean Martin and Shirley MacLaine. The main trouble with the picture is the perhaps inevitable one that the characters are so actorish and attitudinous that they come to seem phony, and their problems unreal. They are so passionately and exclusively interested in themselves that the spectator may sensibly conclude that they do not need any interest from...
...raised her voice in the dark to cry: "Good heavens, how could Hank have accepted such a role?" There on the screen, prancing awkwardly in mandarin robes, flamenco suits, a clown costume, a silly goatee, was Henry Fonda in the role of Willie Bauché, Hollywood producer-director-writer-actor and the most elaborate phony since the big bad wolf...
Indoor Sport. Casanova was born in Venice in 1725, the son of an actor whose Spanish forebears were noted for their adventurousness (one sailed with Columbus) and their illegitimacy. He was still in his teens when he decided that men are, so to speak, either florists or deflorists. His bent was clear, and when his mother enrolled him in a seminary, he was quickly expelled. The second volume of the Putnam edition (the first was issued last spring, and four more will appear at half-year intervals) takes up the rake's progress when he is 23. Casanova...
Staccato (NBC, 8:30-9 p.m.). As one of the new private eyes, Johnny Staccato (Actor John Cassavetes) spends 30 seconds at the piano, 30 minutes stalking Dean Stockwell, who plays a bartender suspected of hunting his free lunch with a pocket knife on the sidewalks of Greenwich Village...