Word: actor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hanged in 1856 for what was rumored as his thirteenth murder by poison. Graves argued that Palmer was the victim of circumstantial evidence. Intentionally or not, the TV version left no doubt of his guilt, and it tried to mitigate Palmer's villainy with the charm of skilled Actor Jack Lemmon. All the Lemmon twists could not make palatable a character who genially blackmailed his loving mother while planning the death of his brother for the insurance. Lacking either the spoofing playfulness of Kind Hearts and Coronets or the intrigue of the Borgia capers, the play amounted...
...third show in the Bell System's science series (Our Mr. Sun, Hemo the Magnificent), Producer-Director Frank Capra again trotted out entertainment as the handmaiden of education. Before a panel of Dostoevsky, Dickens and Poe, played by Bil Baird puppets, Dr. Research (Dr. Frank Baxter) and Actor Richard Carlson submitted their scientific candidate for a detective-story prize. Between fancy patter with the panel, the pair used film, animated cartoons and laboratory models to show how the sleuths of science discovered, clue by clue, what little is known about the cosmic rays that bombard the earth. The Strange...
...more than $2,500,000 of 58 paintings and one Degas sculpture from the Edward G. Robinsons' collection last spring (the Knoedler show will include 40 of the Robinson paintings). But Niarchos did not attain his standing as a collector solely on the strength of the Hollywood actor's selections. He made his first modest purchase when he picked up Winslow Homer's A Voice from the Cliffs (which now hangs in his Manhattan penthouse office) and a Renoir landscape at a Parke-Bernet auction in Manhattan in 1949. His first major purchase was Renoir...
Born. To Carol Haney, 32, gaminlike dancer of The Pajama Game (both stage and screen), and Actor Larry Blyden, 32; a son, their first child; by Caesarean section; in Manhattan. Name: Joshua. Weight...
Time Limit (Heath Productions; United Artists), based on the Broadway play (TIME, Feb. 6, 1956) and capably adapted to the screen by Actor-turned-Director Karl Maiden, is the best picture made to date on the subject of brainwashing. The presiding virtue of the film is that, unlike others of its kind (The Prisoner, The Rack, 1984), it does not prejudge its case...