Word: forde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Kyser does not play up to the TV camera, because "if I'm having fun I ain't looking anywhere." Program suggestions from his sponsor (Ford Dealers) and TV Director Earl Ebi are welcome so long as they do not violate the College's basic Simple-Simon format. Remembering the one disastrous show that resulted when he took his wife's advice, Kyser says firmly: "It's only when you try to get too professional and want to class it up that you fall flat on your face...
...play chronicles a cruise taken by two old school friends (Ruth Ford and Ruth Matteson) with their dissimilar and discordant husbands, one a businessman (Arthur Margetson), the other a novelist (Tom Helmore). The wives shortly espy a tourist named Clutterbuck (Charles Campbell) on whom they had both, it transpires, bestowed their pre-matrimo-nial favors. Simultaneously the husbands discover they have both enjoyed the pre-matrimonial favors of Clutterbuck's wife (Claire Carleton). From there in, the play concentrates on how the six of them purr and perspire, recall the past and are moved to repeat it; on their...
...Doctor and the Girl (MGM) is a painless medical movie glorifying the general practitioner. Young Dr. Glenn Ford, a ruthlessly ambitious intern, is put through a soap-opera wringer until he reforms and becomes a bighearted country doctor with an office under Manhattan's Third Avenue...
...movie is the occasion for a film comeback by Bellevue Hospital, which was also used for backgrounds in The Lost Weekend, The House on 92nd Street and The Naked City. Janet Leigh is probably the cutest lung abscess case ever to enter a hospital, and Ford, with his well-cut suits and his slave bracelet, gives Bellevue an elegant tone it often lacks in real life...
...probably won't rake up a Ford Convertible or 1000 shares of AT&T to decorate the Christmas tree, but can hardly go wrong if you present long-playing records--especially "I Can Hear It Now," which heads the list of what to give to parents, followed by an LP record player. Then again, there are few men who can face a bottle of Scotch without a twinge of Christmas spirit. Another good idea is a silver flask to accompany the above...