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...Living Doll is a one-joke show, but the joke is a knockout. Julie Newmar, once of The Marriage-Go-Round, here plays a robot created by an aerospace scientist. Her viking-size body is actually a compilation of electronic equipment sheathed in homogenous polyethylene plastic. A mistress in a million, she will do anything she is told. In the middle of her back is an OFF and ON button. The man who works it is Bob Cummings, as a psychiatrist who is looking after Julie for his creative friend. "My construction is similar to the one-piece die casting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Second Week Premi | 10/2/1964 | See Source »

...LIVING DOLL (CBS, 9-9:30 p.m.). A new situation comedy with a new situation: Julie Newmar plays a top-secret Government robot, and Robert Cummings is the psychiatrist assigned to watch over her control box. Premi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Sep. 25, 1964 | 9/25/1964 | See Source »

...DOLL (Philips). The Four Seasons resemble the Beach Boys in playing arrangements scored primarily for guitars and cash registers. Philosophically, however, they tend to be more conservative. It was they who warned Dawn to go away, and now along comes this sad rag doll. "I'd change her sad rags into glad rags if I could," sings the hero, "but my folks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Sep. 25, 1964 | 9/25/1964 | See Source »

...film that established her and has almost forced the shape of her career was Tennessee Williams' Baby Doll, in which she lay in a crib sucking her thumb, a physically developed, mentally retarded 19-year-old symbol of unprotected sex. Its seduction scene-in a garden swing-is still discussed by old men on winter evenings. "It's amazing that Baby Doll is the one movie I've done that no one has forgotten." she says now. "I tried to get away into different parts, but I find that audiences want me as an image only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Actresses: Housewife in Houriland | 9/18/1964 | See Source »

...advertised to be. She is simply not the type. In The Carpetbaggers, she wears all sorts of skin-fitting slacks and radioactive underclothes, but she always looks like a suburban mother who is not quite well. The suggestion of Mann Act joy that she achieved in Baby Doll has been rinsed away. Capping her head with platinum has cheapened but not ripened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Actresses: Housewife in Houriland | 9/18/1964 | See Source »

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