Word: bonzo
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Virtually every male lead made westerns in the '50s, so Reagan was happily back on a horse in such ordinary oaters as Tennessee's Partner and Cattle Queen of Montana. His big hit of the decade was the silly Bedtime for Bonzo, a parable of cross-species adoption (Reagan and Diana Lynn try raising a chimp as a human child) in which the star spent much of his time with an animal perched in his lap or on his head. Though it gave his detractors much excuse for merriment, Reagan proclaimed himself proud of the film...
DIED. FRED DE CORDOVA, 90, producer of the Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson; in Los Angeles. Before starting at the Tonight Show, De Cordova produced TV programs for George Burns and the Smothers Brothers, among others, and directed the 1951 chimp comedy Bedtime for Bonzo, co-starring Ronald Reagan. A frequent target of Carson's on-air jokes, De Cordova called his job "the best in television...