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Among those on the list, which appears in the March issue, are "Tales of Hoffman," "Alice in Wonderland," and "Here Comes the Groom." Robert Taylor in "Quo Vadis" and Corinne Calvet in "On the Riviera" were labeled the worst individual performances of the year...
...Producer John Nelson, 36, has received more than 70,000 letters from lovers young & old. They write him about their romances in the hope that Nelson and his partners, John Reddy and John Masterson, will select them to be married on Bride & Groom (weekdays, 10:30 a.m., CBS-TV) before an estimated TV audience of more than 2,000,000 enraptured housewives...
...Meets Girl. What brings lovers in such droves to Bride & Groom is its promise to feather their nests. The newlyweds get a free, week-long honeymoon ("We pay for everything except liquor," says Nelson), the loan of a Pontiac, and a shower of presents ranging from vacuum cleaners and gas ranges to silverware and cigarette lighters. The ceremony itself is whipped through in something under four minutes. The rest of the 15-minute program is devoted to music by an organ, a harp and a sentimental baritone, a quick rehash of the boy-meets-girl details of the particular romance...
Because they are dealing with lovers, Bride & Groom's producers have run into some unexpected situations. One couple astonished the landlord of their honeymoon hotel by playing billiards until 3 a.m. on their wedding night. One groom offered to enliven the ceremony by performing sleight-of-hand tricks on the air. At least six couples have broken their engagements before they could be got in front of the TV cameras. One groom decamped the night before the show, leaving a desolate bride-to-be. The producers were hard put to find another marriageable couple on such short notice. Since...
Girl Gets Boy. The brides have ranged in age from 17 to 75, the grooms from 19 to 78. Divorced people are frowned on, since, as Nelson explains: "There are always plenty of people getting married for the first time." Nelson has had 17 policemen married on his show (he got one speeding ticket fixed as a result), and four children have been named after him. He constantly hears from Bride & Groom graduates who want him to patch up a quarrel, find them a job or lend them some money. He is heartened by a recent survey...