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Strange Bedfellows. As an executive of Inter-Allied Petroleum Products, Rock Hudson awaits a promotion to head the firm's European office at $200,000 per annum. "All you need is one reasonably respectable wife," says Public Relations Wizard Gig Young, rabbeting in a plot gimmick designed to keep a flapdoodle comedy from collapsing in the first reel. Of course, Rock has a demiwife (Gina Lollobrigida) ready at hand in London. But Gina is neither respectable nor reasonable. She is a chichi freethinker, addicted to protest marches and The Arts. Rock had been splattered with so much paint...
...Gig suggests 200,000 motives, and a reconciliation is followed by the usual palaver about love, life and sleeping arrangements. They must curb their "primeval ahneemal appetites," says Gina, but she can't curb the bohemian in herself. In protest against unnamed bureaucrats who have requisitioned a fig leaf for a work of art, she defiantly agrees to march on the U.S. embassy just as Rock's boss arrives there. Gina appears as promised, sitting astride a white horse a la Lady Godiva, filling a flesh-toned body stocking that rolls all the way up to the neck...
...ROGUES (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Gig Young, suavest of con men, impersonates a long-lost relative of a wealthy family to claim an inheritance...
Cammann was not out of the book long. Elizabeth divorced him in 1955, then was married for six years to Actor Gig Young. Her current husband is William Asher, who directs Bewitched. They live in Malibu with their infant son and a Siamese cat named...
...longer gives interviews to magazines that are doing spreads on children of famous parents. She is her own girl. "Her father is a Republican," says Gig Young, reminiscing fondly, "and she is probably a Democrat." She may soon be worth a fortune on her own too. As a part owner of Bewitched, she gets 20% of the show's profits, which will amount to about $2,000,000 if the program lasts for three seasons, which it probably will...