Word: gregson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...whom he met for the first time only two weeks ago, can put new vigor into the ailing MGM lion. Kerkorian wanted a show business veteran to replace financial man Polk, but his choice for the presidency, Herb Jaffe, a vice president of United Artists, turned the job down. Gregson Bautzer, the Los Angeles socialite lawyer who counts both Kerkorian and Aubrey among his clients, introduced the two men at the Beverly Hilton and recommended Aubrey for the job. Bautzer's sales pitch: "Jim Aubrey has a real good sense of smell about what the American public wants...
Married. Natalie Wood, 30, one of Hollywood's more familiar faces, thrice nominated (1955, '61, '63) for an Academy Award; and Richard Gregson, 39, British film producer (The Downhill Racers, soon to be released); both for the second time; in Hollywood...
ESPIONAGE (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). A French doctor (played by Patricia Neal) betrays the allies in World War II. John Gregson also stars...
...Captain's Table (Rank; 20th Century-Fox) is a so-so stateroom farce in which an honest clod of a freighter captain (John Gregson) is put in command of a passenger liner, only to find that it is a vessel of iniquity, whose officers are mainly concerned with smuggling cigarettes and snuggling with lady voyagers. Before long the captain has taken a pratfall into a tray of lobster newburg, walked shudderingly across a boat deck alive with cries of water-borne passion, indulged in a spirited pie-throwing match with a roomful of children, and repulsed the sort...
Best bit: coming on board for his first inspection tour, Captain Gregson spies the nubile young nanny of the ship's nursery in the grasp of a seaman. "What's your job?" the captain roars. "Babies, sir," says the pretty thing. "Carry on," says the captain...