Word: grooms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...groom brought in the gift, led it straight up to the ballroom dais for the Head to see. The gift, perhaps the oddest of 1952: a new horse & cart for the country sort of person who has devoted his life to boys...
...Vadis, are sitting ducks, but the placing of Mario Lanza under the banner, "biggest argument for stricter immigration laws," is a clever ploy. Lampy shows his baser side only when he calls Franchot Tone "most miscast" for Tone's portrayal of a Boston Brahmin in Here Comes the Groom...
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...
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...