Word: edmond
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Video Theater (Thurs. 10 p.m., NBC). Edmond O'Brien in A Bell for Adano...
Before he died at 68, Alexandre the Great wrote between 500 and 600 books and plays - an exact account is impossible. Says Biographer Maurois: "Dumas was a hero out of Dumas. As strong as Porthos, as adroit as d'Artagnan, as generous as Edmond Dantès, this superb giant strode across the 19th century breaking down doors with his shoulder . . . It is as im possible not to like him as it is not to read him . . . No one has read all of Dumas -this would be as implausible as writing it was. But most of mankind has read...
...Gallop. What little novelty and brightness was around last week was again supplied by the dramatic shows. On CBS's Climax, William Faulkner's An Error in Chemistry journeyed to storied Yoknapatawpha County for a study of a carnival confidence man as casually evil as a rattlesnake. Edmond O'Brien played the role with a fine malevolence, although the mistake that finally trapped him was both too forced and too trifling to support an hour show. Kraft TV Theater ambitiously tried Camille on NBC and Kitty Foyle on ABC. Signe Hasso coughed and swooned appropriately...
Died. Robert Edmond Jones, 66, dean of U.S. stage designers; in Milton, N.H. A student of Max Reinhardt, Jones became famous overnight in 1915 with his settings (in "colors as loud as gongs") for The Man Who Married a Dumb Wife. In more than 200 subsequent productions (among the most famous: The Green Pastures, Redemption, most of the plays of Eugene O'Neill), he projected the thoughts of playwrights in vivid, interpretative settings which were "not pictures, but images," vigorously rejected the traditional idea of stage design as simple decoration. "A setting," he wrote, "is a presence, a mood...
...Technicolor flashbacks from the graveside of the heroine (Ava Gardner), the story has a few startlingly good lines and situations-and several embarrassingly bad ones. Ava is a slum-bred flamenco dancer in Madrid when a tyrannical millionaire turned moviemaker (Warren Stevens) shows up with his slavish pressagent (Edmond O'Brien) to look and maybe to buy. But Ava, no easy mark, will have none of it until the millionaire's cynical, broken-down director (Humphrey...