Word: heston
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Studio One (Mon. 10 p.m., CBS). Henry James's The Wings of the Dove, with Charlton Heston, Stella Andrews, Felicia Montealegre...
Robert Montgomery Presents (Mon. 9:30 p.m., NBC). Bernard Shaw's Cashel Byron's Profession, with Charlton Heston, June Lockhart...
...movie's plot does not quite hold all this pageantry together, but De Mille's scripters and actors enter into the thing in the proper flamboyant spirit. Determined to extend a ten-week itinerary into a full season, Charlton Heston, the circus' gruff but devoted manager, promises his reluctant bosses (including John Ringling North himself) to show a profit. He imports Sebastian the Great (Cornel Wilde), a daring high-trapeze artist, thereby queering himself with Aerialist Betty Hutton, who must move out of the center ring. Betty starts a performing feud with Wilde, goads him into...
While Betty warms up to the injured Wilde, a sexy elephant stunt-girl (Gloria Grahame) moves in on the eligible Heston. A jealous Prussian elephant trainer (Lyle Bettger), foiled by Heston when trying to plant an elephant's foot on Gloria's pretty face, joins a plot to halt the circus train and rob the cashier's car. He causes a gargantuan train wreck-for which De Mille demolished full-sized trains (TIME, May 7). The wreck not only awakens Betty's love for Heston and her organizing genius in effecting the circus's comeback...
Studio One (Mon. 10 p.m., CBS). Macbeth, with Charlton Heston, Judith Evelyn...