Word: jackpots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...detour from her singing career, Margaret Truman went to Hollywood to try her voice at radio drama, playing the wife of Cinemactor James Stewart in an adaptation of the movie Jackpot on NBC's Screen Directors' Playhouse. Despite a few carping notices from critics who seemed to be angling for letters from the White House, Actress Truman (who earned a fat $2,000 fee for her debut) turned in a surprisingly competent performance, committed no fluffs. (Actor Stewart, who got second billing on the show, made three.) Asked about rumors of a possible movie career, Margaret Truman said...
Screen Directors' Playhouse (Thurs. 10 p.m., NBC). Margaret Truman and James Stewart in Jackpot...
...sales as old markets decline. It spent $38 million on research last year, will dedicate a new $30 million research center at Wilmington next month. "It took us ten years and $27 million to bring nylon to the production stage," says Greenewalt. "But for every nylon that hits the jackpot, there are 20 other gambles that fail to pay off. If we could not afford to carry the 19 failures, we would probably miss the nylon...
...that moment sharing a chicken luncheon with his father and father-in-law in a working-class apartment in the dusty, dirty Batignolles district above the Gare St. Lazare, Paul Colin was not aware that he had captured the year's literary jackpot. Novelist Colin, a thin, retiring young man, was living on unemployment relief...
...John McNulty, but Scripters Phoebe and Henry Ephron seem to have leaned more heavily on the comic strip Blondie for their family sequences, and on Damon Runyan for an episode with a Chicago gangster. Director Walter Lang helps out the dialogue with pratfalls and horseplay, but what keeps Jackpot moving briskly to its happy ending is the ingratiating acting of Jimmy Stewart...