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Jamie (Mon. 7:30 p.m., ABC). Brandon (Shane) de Wilde in a new comedy series...
...Disney; RKO Radio) is an old-fashioned piece of historical romance done with stylized charm and sly wit. Based on Charles Major's popular 1898 novel, When Knighthood Was in Flower, it tells the love story of Princess Mary Tudor (1496-1533) and Captain of the Guard Charles Brandon. Before the two lovers were married in 1515, Mary had to overcome the objections of her brother, King Henry VIII, submit to a short-lived political marriage with aging, ailing King Louis XII of France, and, according to the movie, contend with the machinations of the malevolent Duke of Buckingham...
...Charles Brandon, Richard Todd is equally adept at gathering a nosegay for the princess, writing her a sonnet, and fighting off the evil duke and his henchmen. Portly James Robertson Justice plays a younger and more forceful Henry VIII than the one Charles Laughton has made familiar to moviegoers. As Mary Tudor, elfin-faced Glynis Johns, with her wryly insinuating voice, gives a winning characterization of a conniving little royal baggage...
Plymouth Playhouse (Sun. 7:30 p.m., ABC). Jamie, with Brandon de Wilde, Ernest Truex...
Sunday morning, after the Liberal Union had spent a large sum advertising "Manon," George Meyer of Boston's Hub Films informed Jorrin that he owned the theatrical showing rights for all six New England states and would sue the HLU if the picture were shown. Both Brandon and Rub Films have been awarded limited rights from the film's national distributor, Discina International. "There are obviously conflicting rights," noted Jorrin...