Word: jeane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...course, much easier to follow old formulas, and in that pattern TV has increasingly turned to successful movies (often themselves derivative) as the basis of new series. That way the audience is already partially presold. Thus next season's fare will include series derived from Mister Roberts, Jean Kerr's Please Don't Eat the Daisies, The Wackiest Ship in the Army (all NBC), The Long, Hot Summer, Tammy and Gidget (ABC). Less taxing yet is to just show the movies themselves. NBC already shows two in prime time, ABC one, and all three shows are firm...
...wife (Fulvia Franco) and a handsome archaeologist-until he gets a bizarre surprise. Manfredi is nearly matched by Monica Vitti, using every tic of her tragicomic trade in The Victim, an offbeat ode to a jealous wife who harangues her husband out of the house. When his best friend (Jean-Pierre Cassel) stops by, she pours out her troubles while he paws out his sympathy. Result: an orgy of absent-minded surrender...
...Mama, all they want is my body," sobs Jean the bit player, explaining to her sex-centered mother that she has declined to court fame on the casting couch. "I knew you were too young for this business," says Mama...
...Jean resists the lecherous counsel of Mama and her sponging stepfather (played with gusto by Raf Vallone) but finds a friend in kindly Arthur Landau (Red Buttons), the actors' agent who in real life raked up most of the muck packed into Shulman's scurrilous bestseller. "You have the body of a woman and the emotions of a child," Landau tells her. Soon Jean's reputation is made by a ruthless producer whose playbuoyant lair features a bedroom equipped with a Roman-size bath, a circular bed, mirrors, and an adjoining jungle paradise with torrential downpours...
Vainly pursuing the womanly fulfillment that her pictures teach, the star weds impotent Movie Executive Paul Bern (Peter Lawford). After his suicide, poor Jean plunges into moral decay, and eventually wanders off alone to the beach in a slinky black formal, as good a way as any to catch a fatal cold. Since its script has already succumbed to silliness back in the first reel, the latest filmflam Harlow will be mourned...