Word: baldwin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Faith Baldwin has turned out novels at the rate of more than two a year for 30 years, plus uncounted shorts. Last week, like Authors Billy Rose and Somerset Maugham, she got her reward: her own television show...
...Faith Baldwin Theater of Romance (alternate Sats. 11 a.m., ABC) hopes to mirror the rosy view of U.S. life & love that has enchanted the Baldwin millions. The first show opened with harp strings, cloud formations and a lyric hymn to Maidenform ("The dream of a bra . . . the largest-selling brassiere in the world!"), illustrated with sexy shots of bra-girls skiing, stretching, or just standing around in half-dressed hauteur...
...material goods to leave his family. But his wife and children clamorously reminded him of all the good times they had had together, and the 30-minute show ended with everyone misty-eyed and agreeing that money can't buy happiness. Sentiments like these, flowering in Faith Baldwin's prose, have earned her a place in Connecticut with a 22-room house and a pool. But she sometimes broods because critics label her Pollyanna. "The reason my stories always end happily is because the magazines prefer happy endings," she explains. Actually, she argues, her plots often have...
Theater of Romance, however, will only occasionally reflect the deep-thinking side of Faith Baldwin. For the next show she has promised something more in line with commercial reality: the story of a glamorous, beautiful Broadway actress (Nina Foch) who is ardently wooed and eventually won by a wealthy young man from Park Avenue...
William A. Day '52 and Helmut F. Furth '52 presented the negative for the Crimson; Robert Waetzel and John McGary argued the affirmative for Holy Crosss. Robert E. Baldwin, instructor in Economics, was the judge...