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...results were not always sidesplitting. Martha Raye proved that slapstick can be tasteless with an interminable skit that required Douglas Fairbanks Jr. to pretend that he was madly in love with her (a role often filled last year by Actor Cesar Romero). Jackie Gleason is back with The Honeymooners, but the show is now filmed by the Electronicam method, which Gleason and the system's inventors (Du Mont) insist is just as good as live TV, from the evidence of the first two shows, not all of Gleason's audience will agree: on film, the battles between Jackie...
...Hell. Movies? Sullivan's show pioneered in showing pre-release snatches of films (as in this week's Guys & Dolls, starring Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons and Frank Sinatra, with music by Frank Loesser). Comedians? Ed has ransacked the U.S. and Europe for funnymen; Victor Borge, Jackie Gleason, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis all made their TV debuts on the Sullivan program. Spectaculars? Ed is convinced that the basic idea came from such Toast of the Town biographies as those of Oscar Hammerstein II, Bea Lillie, Cole Porter and Walt Disney. Sullivan boasts that his show was the first...
...Honeymooners (Sat. 8:30 p.m., CBS). With Jackie Gleason. Audrey Meadows, Art Carney...
Studio One (Mon. 10 p.m., CBS). Jackie Gleason in Uncle Ed and Circumstance...
...leaders labeled "spontaneous." The strikers knew better. At one strike meeting a member got up and asked: "What are the principles for which we are going out?" Without a word, an I.L.A. goon stalked over and slugged him in the face. As he toppled over, I.L.A. Chief Organizer Teddy Gleason boomed: "Now I'll answer the question. The principles are these: you go home, and you don't work. We don't want you guys asking questions...