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Butterfield 8 (MGM) as a novel by John O'Hara was a crude but affecting tart's tragedy. As a film, it has been turned into a sleek and libidinous lingerie meller...
Family Classics (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). The first show in a new David Susskind series is Part One of The Scarlet Pimpernel, with Michael Rennie, Maureen O'Hara and Zachary Scott...
Died. John Francis Cardinal O'Hara, 72, one of six U.S. cardinals, president of the University of Notre Dame (his alma mater) from 1934 to 1940, administrator of the U.S. Armed Forces' Catholic chaplains during World War II, and since 1952 the unassuming Archbishop of Philadelphia, who often answered his own doorbell ("How else can I meet the poor?"); following surgery; in Philadelphia...
...sensitivity to the right street, the right family, the right school-recalling, in a less obsessed way, the social preoccupation of John O'Hara, which once inspired Hemingway to groan: "Lord, I wish someone would start a fund to send O'Hara to Yale." Marquand, at least, got to Harvard, the son of an old Newburyport family which, like Charley Gray's, had lost its money and no longer lived on the best street. But he felt ill at ease because he had not prepped at Exeter or St. Mark...
Though the film is shapeless and its ending sissified (O'Hara let his hero go to hell, good woman and all), there are a few nice touches. Says a married chick to a dastard who is fumbling with her farthingale: "I think I'll go put on something a little more comfortable, like my husband." And when an overheated party girl who is trying to climb into Newman's cummerbund tells him, "I'm crowding 19," he asks, "Years or guys?" Actress Woodward is sexily soulless as a wife who flies her scarlet letter...