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...over and over again. Actors assigned to him describe the experience as "living in the torture chamber." Greer Garson tried to soften him up in advance by sending him a pair of velvet gloves. Bette Davis got so mad she walked off the set for a week. Olivia de Havilland all but heaved a suitcase at Wyler after he ordered the umpteenth take of the same scene; yet all these films were hits. "I've resisted the temptation of being a good fellow," says Wyler, 62. "I don't care what they think...
...Among them: Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, Greer Garson, Fredric March, Teresa Wright, Fay Bainter, Walter Brennan, Burl Ives, Hugh Griffith, Audrey Hepburn, Charlton Heston...
Died. Sir Geoffrey de Havilland, 82, pioneer British aircraft designer, who built his first plane in 1908 with $5,000 lent by his grandfather, formed his own company in 1920 and went on to design World War II's fighting Mosquito and later the Vampire, first jet fighter in the free world to exceed 500 m.p.h., from which he conceived the four-jet Comet airliner, in a brilliant but crash-plagued attempt to capture the passenger market from U.S. planemakers; of a heart attack; in Watford, England...
...BELL TELEPHONE HOUR (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Olivia de Havilland is host to Dorothv Collins, Richard Tucker and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Color...
HUSH . . . HUSH, SWEET CHARLOTTE. Four durable movie queens (Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, Agnes Moorehead, Mary Astor) turn a lushly photographed thriller into frightful fun, though the horrors provided by Producer-Director Robert Aldrich (What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?) are mostly formula...