Word: coxing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...That boy doesn't need a vacuum cleaner," he said. "He needs a plow." The mess was at its worst in the days when Marlon had a pet raccoon, but even before that, it sometimes got pretty bad. Actress Shelley Winters reports that when Marlon and Comic Wally Cox shared a Manhattan apartment, they once undertook to paint the walls of the place. Says Shelley: "They painted one wall and then, for one solid year, the canvas, the buckets of paint and the brushes lay on the living-room floor. They just stepped around them...
...Producer George Glass, "it should of happened to me." Director Kazan calls him "one of the gentlest-every possibly the gentlest-person I have ever known." A girl friend claims that until recently he was so sensitive that he hated to eat lettuce because it was so noisy. Wally Cox says he is "a creative philosopher, a very deep thinker. He's a real liberating force for his friends...
Along with the rest, even though Marlon never quite made a high-school diploma, goes an impressive intellect. He reads constantly (e.g., Nietzsche, Lao-tse, psychoanalytical textbooks), and has quite a flair for verbal imagery (he once described Wally Cox as "an old. fragile, beautifully embroidered Chinese ceremonial robe, with a few little Three-in-One oil spots...
...face, ballyhooed as an "offbeat, low-pressure Wally Cox-Will Rogers type," was crewcut George Gobel (Sat. 10 p.m., NBC). Straining at a deadpan, Midwestern delivery ("Wai, I'll be a dirty bird"), Gobel was better at dialogue than monologue. The show's two sketches were unpretentious, underplayed and very funny...
...second season, there was still not enough of the famed Bolger dancing shoes. A more pretentious 60-minute production is The Martha Raye Show (alternating Tuesdays, 8 p.m., NBC). Tireless Trouper Raye bounced through songs and dances, but even her magnificent energy and Guest Star Wally Cox's support failed to pull along the old story line. The gags were hysterical, the mugging furious, and the sponsor (Hazel Bishop lipstick) added to the confusion by forcing its inane commercials into the action...