Word: jessica
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Were any of the sustaining summer shows good enough to carry on into the fall as sponsored programs? The trade magazine Tide asked the question of more than 3,000 industry executives, found three shows in front by a wide margin: The Marriage, starring Jessica Tandy and Hume Cronyn; Adventure; and Shakespeare on TV, featuring Southern California's Professor Frank C. Baxter...
...Marriage (Thurs. 10 p.m., NBCTV) is a literate, family-situation comedy starring Broadway's talented Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy. Written by Radio Scriptwriter Ernest Kinoy, the new series looks like a transmutation of Jan de Har-tog's Broadway hit The Fourposter, in which the same couple appeared (TIME, Nov. 5, 19-51), but lacks much of the deftness of that comical production. One reason is that the first script has too much of the radio style about its dialogue, and not enough TV appeal. The few good visual touches that are used are ably exploited...
...Marriage (Thurs. 10 p.m., NBC). Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy...
...Edward Hambleton, was organized last fall so that established show people could occasionally get away "from the frenzied tailoring process that must turn every undertaking into a 'smash hit.' " For its first production, Madam, Will You Walk, the Phoenix hired Broadway's Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy, paid them $100 a week apiece. The play ran successfully for six weeks, after a capital outlay of $15,000. Next, Houghton and Hambleton put on Shakespeare's Coriolanus, with Cinemactor Robert Ryan (salary: $100 a week). Again, for $15,000, the Phoenix had a fine run. Golden Apple...
...Greenwich Village, Max hit his bohemian crescendo. A lusty, limpidly handsome man. he attracted women by the scores (at least two of his castoff in amoratas committed suicide). By 1935, though, Bodenheim was no longer in vogue. Sales of his murky verse (Minna and Myself) and erotic novels (Replenishing Jessica) dwindled away, and he sank gradually into the bleary stupor of the alcoholic. He flapped disconsolately around the Village resting up periodically in the Bellevue alcoholic ward, sleeping in gutters, hallways and subways (TIME, Feb. 18, 1952). On a rainswept night three years ago, he met his third wife...