Word: crawford
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...BIDONE. Though it sometimes seems a fumbling first version of 81/2, this Italian tragicomedy about a smalltime swindler (Broderick Crawford) in bishop's clothing stirs interest as the missing volume of Director Federico Fellini's "trilogy of Solitude" begun wi:h La Strada and ending in Le Notti di Cabiria...
BURKE'S LAW (ABC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). Burke's usual bag of interesting cameo players: Hans Conried, Broderick Crawford, Dan Duryea, Rhonda Fleming, Burgess Meredith and Mamie Van Doren...
...Bidone. Round and solemn as a barrel of holy water, a fat old bishop (Broderick Crawford) rolls ponderously out of a big black automobile and stands staring at a huddle of Italian peasants. "My children," he informs them in a sanctimonious monotone, "I bring you tidings of great sorrow and good fortune. During the last war, a man was murdered and a treasure hidden on the land you own." The peasants, quivering with avarice, scuttle off to the appointed spot and dig up the treasure: an iron casket crammed with smoldering brilliants. "Worth at least six million lire," the bishop...
...started as an expediter for small orders, but was laid off when the Depression struck. Back in the company after only four months, he began to rise with predictable speed: board member at the age of 37, then corporate secretary, chairman of the finance committee, vice president. In 1962 Crawford Greenewalt-whose wife is a Du Pont and a first cousin of Copeland's-moved to the chairmanship after 14 years as president. He advised the board that the best man to succeed him would be Copeland. Somewhat like Britain's Conservative Party, Du Pont...
...swarm of lensmen a heyday, feasting their flashbulbs on the likes of Jean Kennedy Smith and Mrs. Winston ("CeeZee") Guest, as well as a handful of Hollywood's last duchesses. Joan Fontaine simply glowed, Jennifer Jones fluttered a huge black boa, but Pepsi-Cola's sociable Joan Crawford, 56, in her diamond tiara, outqueened them all. "Darling, you must be proud of you!" she said to Audrey at intermission...