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...famous as many of his subjects, grosses some $90,000 a year. The seven-room Manhattan apartment he shares with his witty wife, Sylvia, and their four sons is cluttered with the trappings of the great: Hitler's telephone, a coffee table dented by a Ray Bolger tap dance, a copy of Eisenhower's Crusade in Europe inscribed, "To a REAL writer...
...Ginger Rogers Show (CBS, 9-10 p.m.).-Grand news: Old Hoofer Rogers kicks up her heels on TV, with the uplifting presence of Ray Bolger to help her over the jumps. The antique Ritz Brothers may need even more help as they try to parody Russia's superb Moiseyev Dance Company. Unfortunately missing from the party: Fred Astaire, who starts his own new show this week (see below...
Finding the man to play Harold Hill was a more complicated problem. Television Comic Milton Berle wanted the part. TV Actor Art Carney was considered, and so was Dancer Ray Bolger. Da Costa had seen Robert Preston in a few summer stock shows; Bloomgarden, too, knew Preston's work. Says Da Costa: "Preston has energy and he has reality. He's an actor who can project himself larger than life. And he has enough sureness of technique and enough urbanity to portray the con man and the opportunist without resorting to a wax mustache. The part calls...
Washington Square (Sun. 4 p.m., NBC). Ray Bolger, with Charles Laughton to help...
...Trapped. Bolger has a pleasant mishmash of old favorites (The Old Soft Shoe, Window Dresser Goes to Bed) and some skittish originals stored up in his dancing pumps, and is not worried about burning up material-the perennial worry of TV comics. "I'm mostly concerned about my own personality running out," he says. "These TV shows whirl around like a revolving door. You have to watch out you don't get trapped...