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...George Gobel: "He is the wide-eyed innocent looking ... at a frustrating world. His seven-year-old gestures, facial expressions and reactions must be kept 'in the act.' But ... he is not entitled to indulge in the completely unbridled regression to infancy that is allowed Jerry Lewis...
...Birds and the Bees (Paramount] abet the growing suspicion that Hollywood is engaged in a Machiavellian plot to destroy television by sabotaging TV's best comics. Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz were the victims in last month's Forever Darling. This time, George Gobel walks the plank. Since the essence of Gobel's comedy is intellectual, The Birds and the Bees cunningly makes its jokes as physical as possible: Gobel takes pratfalls on land and sea, at home and abroad. When he isn't getting pie in the face, he is compelled to read limp double...
...plot: Simple-Simon Gobel, heir to a frankfurter fortune, is dogged by Fortune Hunters Niven and Gaynor. In mid-picture, Gobel concludes that Mitzi wants his pelf, instead of his self, and renounces her. Producer Paul Jones liked this idea so much that he has it played all over again, but it is not much funnier the second time around. About the only bright note: the catchy title song neatly handled by Gobel and Gaynor...
...traded punches in the endless audience-rating war. According to last week's Trendex figures, NBC's Perry Como edged out Jackie Gleason's Honeymooners, 26.5 to 25.7, while CBS's 90-minute Eddie Fisher show walloped NBC's George Gobel...
Except for his fine character acting, Hitchcock is too busy making Hollywood movies to bother much about his TV chores. His astringent lines are written for him by Playwright James (At War with the Army) Allardice, who last year was one of George Gobel's team of gagmen. The TV shows are filmed by a staff of four directors and, of the 39 made this season, Hitchcock will have had a personal hand in only six. But, largely for the prestige of his name, he is rumored to have made "one of the most fabulous deals in TV." After...