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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Clive Donelly's direction becomes stilted and overdone in its efforts to keep the action visually diverting. He falls back on the English Diagonal School of photography, which keeps framing the actor with chair legs, room corners and other straight lines. The size of the room strictly confines movement, and Donelly uses a flat lighting throughout. The few excursions outside the room seem to be stuck in mainly as a reminder that cameras do such tricks...

Author: By William H. Smock, | Title: The Guest | 11/13/1964 | See Source »

...times, don't we, and I don't have to be loved . . . What CBS wants is a kind of friendly lynch mob scene." Beads for Sale. Miller's Jackie Cooper, who was going to play the lead in the series, is a picture of the modern actor as an "incorporated" millionaire, who seeks control of scripts, direction, and other aspects of production quite clearly out of his mental range. Cooper called Miller a great or beautiful writer about 100,000 times-then turned up one day with a new version of the script, written by someone else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Only You, Merle Miller | 11/13/1964 | See Source »

Richard Burton has long insisted that he would rather be a writer than an actor. Last summer, Condé Nast's Glamour magazine sent him a timid feeler asking if he might like to write a story for the Christmas issue. The idea appealed to Burton's repressed ambition, and he set to work in longhand. The result, which will next month become his first published short story, is anything but an embarrassment. It is worth every farthing he was paid for it. "He gets $500," says Glamour's Feature Editor Marilyn Mercer, "which is a very...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Actors: A Beginning Writer | 10/30/1964 | See Source »

...been a divorcee herself a couple of times. Her first husband was Freddie Cammann, Harvard '51, descendant of Albert Gallatin, fourth Secretary of the Treasury. Since Elizabeth was only an actor's daughter, she knocked Freddie out of the Social Register when she married him in 1954, just as Robert Montgomery himself had depaginated Buffy Harkness when he married...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Girl with the Necromantic Nose | 10/30/1964 | See Source »

Cammann was not out of the book long. Elizabeth divorced him in 1955, then was married for six years to Actor Gig Young. Her current husband is William Asher, who directs Bewitched. They live in Malibu with their infant son and a Siamese cat named...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Girl with the Necromantic Nose | 10/30/1964 | See Source »

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