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Playhouse of Stars (Fri. 9:30 p.m., CBS). The Wedding Present, with Celeste Holm as a lonely spinster who shocks the town by taking in Hobo Gary Merrill...
Jack's pull, however, was not always in proportion to its charm, which was sporadic. Top-heavy with talent (Celeste Holm, Cyril Ritchard, Dennis King, Leora Dana, Billy Gilbert) and electronic gimmickry, the big beanstalk was often heavy on its feet. Main trouble: for a 90-minute musical, the music just wasn't very good. Best scene: Choreographer Rod Alexander's March of the Ill-Assorted Guards, with Newcomer Joel Grey, 24, who as Jack showed real promise in the difficult triple chore of actor, singer and dancer...
Producer's Showcase (Mon. 8 p.m.. NBC). Jack and the Beanstalk, with Celeste Holm, Cyril Ritchard, Dennis King...
...Dinah Shore and Bob Hope. Nanette Fabray, who left Sid Caesar for greener folding money, will star in High Button Shoes. Producer's Showcase will offer Somerset Maugham's The Letter (produced and directed by William Wyler), a musical version of Jack and the Beanstalk with Celeste Holm and Cyril Ritchard. John Huston's Lysistrata, Anatole Litvak's Mayerling with Audrey Hepburn and Mel Ferrer, Claire Bloom in the Old Vic's Romeo and Juliet, the Lunts, making their TV debuts, in The Great Sebastians, Gene Kelly and Fredric March in Front Page...
Fair Lady is not all Rex Harrison. Producer Herman Levin has outfitted it sumptuously with Cecil Beaton costumes and Oliver Smith sets, had Hanya Holm contrive romping dances under Covent Garden's soaring arches. Stanley Holloway, a hook-nosed veteran of British music halls, makes Eliza's father an uproarious Shavian tribute to the "undeserving poor." Harrison's costar, a 20-year-old English girl named Julie Andrews, plays the role of the flower girl with heart-lifting simplicity. Switching convincingly from whining cockney to fluting aristocrat, she is raucous as she squawks her indignation...