Word: ann
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Married. Ann Ruml, Vassar-educated daughter of Tax Economist Beardsley ("pay as you go") Ruml; and Lieut. Colonel (of the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry) John R. Innes Doyle, nephew of the late Sir Arthur Conan (Sherlock Holmes) Doyle; in the British embassy, Paris...
...Susie McNamara every Sunday night (7:30 p.m., E.S.T.), Ann is the "private right arm" of a show-business impresario, a glib, high-spirited girl in her thirties, who gets in & out of scrapes with sexy relish. Unlike Maisie, Susie dresses well, and "we try not to make her stupid. There are 5,000,000 secretaries in this country, and we want some sort of sympathetic association." After only a couple of months on the air, Private Secretary-a sort of junior-size I Love Lucy-has built up an audience of a good portion of those...
...boss of the filmed program (cost: $27,500 a week), Ann Sothern has to be practical about her art: "It's a business of compromise. Time is of the essence. Cost is paramount. If you're trying...
...Ann also has to approve and edit scripts and help in casting and production planning: "If anyone tells you TV is easy, you can hit them for me. I live on Knox Gelatine and orange juice, just to keep going. In television you must give of yourself at such a pitch that it takes everything...
Although Private Secretary is going great guns, Ann likes to say she would just as soon be out of it all. She says she never asked to be in show business anyway; it was all her mother's idea. Fortyish and divorced, she lives in Beverly Hills with her eight-year-old daughter Patricia, and "I hope Tish will never want to be an actress. I want her to grow up and have a lot of children so I can be a grandmother." What Ann really wants, she says, is "a man who is 40, rich and Catholic. Then...