Word: cbs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...high-priced network talent. Adolphe Menjou grossed $235,000 from Target last year, Lloyd Bridges $300,000 from Sea Hunt, and Richard Carlson will make $287,000 from Mackenzie's Raiders this year. Meanwhile, Jack Paar struggles along on $200,000 for NBC, and CBS's James Arness, whose Gunsmoke has hit the top of the ratings, toils for a humble...
Before the show is half over, viewers are likely to wonder why CBS is not putting other Friars Club dinners on the air. Fact is, CBS planned on doing just that. After seeing the Sullivan pilot film, the Texas Co. was all set to pay $4,500,000 for a package that included eight similar shows, but backed out at the last minute. High-octane operators were disturbed, so the story goes, over a brief, dull speech by New York's Republican Senator Jacob Javits in the last portion of the dinner. But Producer Nat (Bilko) Hiken, himself...
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Eli Wallach, a method actor who took the trouble to learn acting as well as method, as a crusading Puerto Rican lawyer in New York...
Armstrong Circle Theater (CBS, 10-11 p.m.)* The House of Flying Objects is based on the strange happenings in the house of James M. Herrmann of Seaford, L.I., where eight months ago lamps, bottles and furniture apparently flew through the air with the greatest of ease (TIME, March 17). The script leaves the solution to the mystery right up in the air along with all the household effects...
Playhouse 90 (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). Germany's famed Maria Schell (TIME, Dec. 30) makes her American TV debut in Word from a Sealed-Off Box, a play about four prisoners in Nazi-occupied Holland; the story is from the book The Walls Came Tumbling Down, by Henriette Roosenburg. Also in the cast: Jean Pierre Aumont, Betsy von Furstenberg...