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Among the guests of Producer Don Mitchell and his novelist wife Gwen Davis (The Pretenders) was Shirley MacLaine. She had spurned an Academy invitation this year to be a "Friend of Oscar" (award presenter). "People come to these parties," she explained, "to talk back to the myth." Lee Marvin, a 20-year screen veteran who has sat through the official Oscar event only once, the year he won ("Do you go for any other reason?"), was also there. "I'm enjoying myself this year," he said. "Any time they give you an award, you pay for it, baby...
...Shirley's mouth fell agape-and suddenly silent-when British National Theater Star Maggie Smith (The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie) won an upset victory as best actress. "Son of a gun!" marveled Hostess Gwen Davis. "They voted for a talent!" During Elizabeth Taylor's appearance on the screens, there were ribald comments about her cleavage, her saucer-sized diamond and her apparent fury over her husband Richard Burton's failure to win an Oscar for his performance in Anne of the Thousand Days. "Who is this?" asked Marvin. "She's grown up. I thought...
...GWEN KINGMAN Wayzata, Minn...
BROADWAY '69-THE TONY AWARDS (NBC, 10-11:30 p.m.). The cream of Broadway assembles to give and receive recognition for the past year's plays and performances; co-hosts are Alan King and Diahann Car roll. Among those presenting awards will be Dustin Hoffman, Gwen Verdon and Leslie Uggams...
Charity began in 1957 as the title character of Nights of Cabiria, an Italian sleeper about a Punchinello prostitute. The director-writer was Federico Fellini; the star was his wife, Giulietta Masina. Maintaining the tradition, Fosse turned the film into a Broadway musical starring his wife, Gwen Verdon, as a heart-of-gold "hostess" named Charity Hope Valentine...