Word: janet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...That Lady? (Columbia) gives the first sly wink of its camera eye in a Columbia University chemistry lab, where an arcane experiment is in progress: Assistant Professor Tony Curtis is kissing a girl student. An unstable element, his wife, Janet Leigh, enters the lab and explodes. Janet promptly informs the errant Tony that he has defiled their five-year marriage and that she is heading for Reno to be decontaminated. Poor Tony begs his old pal, Dean Martin, a TV writer, to cook up an alibi to placate Janet. Dean's idea: Tony is really an undercover...
...might be expected, a comic invention of this sort is the mother of some fairly silly plot necessities. When Tony springs his FBI status on Janet, she thaws no faster than a glacier to a lighted match. But when he produces a TV prop department pistol and identity card, and shows her his clannish insigne of rank (four dots "tattooed" on his heel-"J. Edgar Hoover has seven"), Janet melts into a my-hero mood and virtually orders Tony to kiss-and-not-tell in the line of future duty. Fellow FBI-Fibster Dean gets an erotomaniacal glint...
...nearby table sits a real FBI agent checking on this zany imposture, and at his side is (who else?) Janet, babbling to him about the force ("How many dots do you have?"). The next dotty reel brings on the real spies. Farce's end finds Tony and Dean bravely intoning America the Beautiful while flooding the sub-basement of the Empire State Building under the impression that they are sinking their Soviet captors' submarine...
Chevy Show (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Janet Blair fills in for Dinah Shore and takes a trip Around the World with Nellie Bly. Her traveling companion: Cornel Wilde...