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Although the leading actress in this one-horse farce is Helen Hayes, a nice old lady who lives in a firehouse, the real star is a car called Herbie. He is a Volkswagen Beetle who, befitting a Disney Studios creation, does wheelstands when people insult him or transports them to trysting places as the mood takes...
...Incredible Mr. Limpet (1964). Don Knotts is a wishy-washy bookkeeper who becomes a fish. This sounds dumb, but it isn't half bad. The animated scenes of Knotts as the fish are better than Disney, and the plot (the Navy tries to use him to bomb enemy subs but he has cold fins about it) is pretty daring for a kid's film. Ch. 56, 12 noon. Color, 2 hours...
...James Kimberly, and his wife Jacquie. Then he set about enjoying himself. A day's shooting on a nearby game preserve bagged 40 quail, and an ocean fishing trip in the Atlantic made His Majesty the possessor of a mighty fish: a 130-lb. grouper. A visit to Disney World followed, and finally the mandatory shopping spree, which last year required a special plane to take home the goodies. Asked why Palm Beach had become a popular Hussein holiday spot, Kimberly replied succinctly: "He feels safe here...
...Wizard of Oz made a hit at Harvard was in October of 1939 when the movie version played for the first time at the University Theatre (now the Harvard Square). The Crimson movie reviewer took it quite seriously and decided that in spite of "a strong aroma of Walt Disney," it was "a good show...
...Brooklyn taxi driver. His first job, at the age of twelve, was plucking chickens in a meat market. He learned the movie business in the Warner, Disney and Filmways organizations. Those were the years when he memorized the physical contours of every U.S. theater of even minimal consequence. Thus certain houses were turned down on bids to show The Godfather because they were too narrow. "It is a three-hour show, and I did not want people getting claustrophobia," says the impresario...