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Oldtime Musicomedy Star Frank Elgin (Bing Crosby) has courted defeat for nearly a decade by mixing self-pity and the bottle. He is, as his wife says, a "cunning drunkard," and he camouflages his self-destructive path with martyrdom on one hand and penitence on the other. His main trouble is that there are two people who believe in him: his wife Georgie (Grace Kelly), who is too strong for her husband and too weak for her own good, and Broadway Director Bernie Dodd (William Holden), who has to fight both Elgins to give Frank a try at the lead...
Audiences who remember Bing Crosby's competent straight acting in Little Boy Lost (TIME, Oct. 5) are sure to enjoy watching him plunge into some new acting depths in Country Girl. And 50-year-old Bing, who sings a few pretty good songs by Ira Gershwin and Harold Arlen, possibly gets his biggest kicks playing the aging actor who has to wear special hair pieces to give him a youthful look for the play-within-the-play...
Person to Person (Fri. 10:30 p.m., CBS).EdMurrow interviewing Bing Crosby and Mary Margaret McBride...
Even radio made news. Bing Crosby began a new show on CBS Radio that was noteworthy for the fact that he was without a sponsor for his first time on the air. In Philadelphia, Manager Murray Arnold of radio station WPEN was traitorously watching TV when he heard Singer Gordon MacRae suggest to Soprano Dorothy Kirsten that they do a duet as they used to in the old days of radio. "You remember radio," MacRae gratuitously reminded Kirsten. Outraged, Manager Arnold banned the playing of any MacRae records on his radio station...
After Gianelly picked up three yards on first down, reserve tailback Bing Crosby headed off tackle and reached the two before the ball was knocked out of his arms into the end zone and finally recovered by Cochran for a touchdown. End Joe Ross, who had led the line charge on Agnew, booted the extra point giving the varsity its 7-6 half-time lead...