Word: heston
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Medallion Theater (Sat. 10 p.m., CBS). Charlton Heston in A Day in Town...
...made to order for the movies. He rose from Tennessee backwoodsman and lawyer to be elected seventh President of the U.S. in 1828. He raced horses, fought Indians, was as handy with a gun as with a legal brief. Mostly, this film biography looks at Jackson (Charlton Heston) through the eyes of his wife (Susan Hayward). When Rachel Donelson Robards married Jackson, there was a legal error about her divorce from her first husband. Two years later, when the error was discovered, Jackson and Rachel were remarried. But Rachel Jackson was often the object of slanderous gossip (Jackson fought duels...
...share of legitimate adventure. But in its writing, direction and acting, it comes out as a too-slick biographical film. Susan Hayward makes a glamorous Mrs. Jackson even when she is smoking a pipe (as she did in real life), and she grows old becomingly. As Jackson, Charlton Heston is as dashing a figure in or out of politics as any moviegoer could wish. Only in the final scenes, when he ages, does he acquire the familiar shaggy, roughhewn look of Old Hickory...
...Radio Theater (Mon. 9 p.m., CBS). Viva Zapata, with Charlton Heston, Jean Peters...
...Savage (Paramount) considers the predicament of a white boy adopted by Sioux Indians. In time, the youth grows up to be a handsome brave named Warbonnet (Charlton Heston). When his foster father Chief Yellow Eagle goes to war with the white men, Warbonnet's loyalties are naturally torn. Matters become even more complicated when Warbonnet falls in love with a white girl (Susan Morrow...