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Ever since it went on the air for ABC in 1945, Bride and Groom has enjoyed a high rating in daytime radio. Its surefire formula: a pleasant young couple tell how they met and fell in love, step nervously offstage for their wedding ceremony, then return to the microphone to be loaded with gifts and sent off on a honeymoon trip...
...producers decided to switch the program to television, but Hollywood's KLAC-TV beat them to it with Wedding Bells, which did everything Bride and Groom did, and showed the actual wedding ceremony to boot...
Bride and Groom's producers called it piracy, brought suit. Last week, after a month-long trial, a Los Angeles superior court jury agreed, awarded them $800,000 damages. It was the biggest plagiarism award ever made in an industry which has no effective protection for mere ideas, and the first ever made for an alleged piracy from the one medium to the other. No one was more shocked by the verdict than KLAC's General Manager Don Fedderson, who sputtered: "Weddings are in the public domain! There have been wedding programs since the '30s; I used...
...bookshelves. "I don't want to learn anything now," says Dagmar, explaining the absence of books. "If this is what you get for being dumb, I love it." Her success has also paid for a secretarial course for her sister, a college education for her brother, a new groom house for her parents in Huntington...
...programs" like What's My Line, Blind Date, Hollywood Screen Test, Life Begins at Eighty. As for vulgarity: "Well, America is a vulgar country in the broadest sense of the word, and some of its down-to-earth brashness is bound to rub off into TV . . . Bride and Groom is as embarrassing as watching your girl friend publicly eating peas off her knife. But on the whole the programs are high level. If there is glamour on view, there is usually talent along with it. You must talk with your mouth as well as your neckline...