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...looked as if Elephant, which had already cost Paramount more than $1,000,000, had turned out to be a gigantic white elephant. If Actress Leigh's scenes were dropped, what was left? Just barely enough, Producer Irving Asher decided, to provide background for a second shooting of the film on a Hollywood sound stage. Elizabeth Taylor was borrowed from M-G-M to take Vivien's place, and Elephant Walk, new version, was in the cans by mid-May. Total cost: close...
...Crimson's previously undefeated freshman team lost to M.I.T. in a dual meet on the Charles. Phil Tierney stood out for the Yardlings, who were edged 3 to 2 by Tech. Gordon Beggs, Fred Hoppin, and Asher Langworthy also sailed for the freshmen...
...final version, she couldn't have looked prettier to Paramount tycoons if she had been fitted with Lana Turner's head. When Paramount's advertising director saw the finished product in Manhattan he turned to his secretary and bade her take a wire to Producer Irving Asher in Hollywood. "Say this " he instructed. "This girl is Miss Crosby! Don't let anybody teach...
...hired a pair of veteran troupers, William Frawley and Vivian Vance, to play the family next door and serve as foils and friends for Desi and Lucille. Academy Award-winning Karl (The Good Earth) Freund supervises the three cameras, and Director Marc Daniels (soon to be replaced by Bill Asher) gives Lucy its rattling pace. The writers-Jess Oppenheimer, Bill Carroll and Madalyn Pugh-turn out scripts that do not impose too much on the audience's credulity and are reasonably free of cliches. The writers are held in an esteem not common in TV. Lucille bombards Jess Oppenheimer...
Elsie (nobody knows her true name) is a typical sufferer from what Dr. Asher calls the "Munchausen syndrome," after the famed yarn-spinning baron. Her kind troops from hospital to hospital in psychopathic search of drama and attention. The Elsies, says Dr. Asher, often "seem to gain nothing except . . . discomfiture . . . Their initial tolerance to the more brutish hospital measures is remarkable, yet they commonly discharge themselves after a few days with operation wounds scarcely healed . . . Their effrontery is sometimes formidable, and they may appear many times at the same hospital. hoping to meet a new doctor on whom to practice...