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Playhouse 90 (Thurs. 9:30 p.m., CBS). Eloise, with Kay Thompson, Ethel Barrymore, Louis Jourdan, Monty Woolley...
Julie (MGM) is a regular little pell-meller from the opening scene, in which a jealous husband (Louis Jourdan) quarrels with his wife (Doris Day) while she is driving a car, jams his foot on the throttle, and for the next two minutes gives the moviegoer practically all the sensations of being a member of an avalanche. After that, it somehow occurs to Julie that the man she is married to may not be entirely right in the head...
...drama came a promising addition: CBS's Playhouse 90, the first hour-and-a-half drama factory in TV history. For eight months Playhouse Producer Martin (Climax!) Manulis has skirted the globe to corral top properties; he signed Keenan Wynn in Tokyo, Phyllis Kirk in London, Louis Jourdan in Paris. Of his upcoming teleplays-31 live and eight on film-most are being penned by big-time talents, e.g., H. Allen Smith, Gore Vidal. Each will cost some $100,000 to produce. Currently, four Playhouse directors are alternating assignments so that at least three complete units are in rehearsal...
Unfortunately, the third party in this triangle has the unpromising role of a dashing young man on the intellectual trapeze who does not even get the bacon at the end. Louis Jourdan does little to salvage the part. He is, however, overshadowed by better acting in the smaller parts, especially by Estelle Winwood, who plays Grace's Aunt Synphorosa with the wit one would expect from Guinness...
...scenes of first love, Actress Kelly is exquisite. She kisses her man as though she had invented kisses just for him. Louis Jourdan partners her with easy skill, but Alec Guinness is the man to watch-especially when he goes to bed tied up in a mustache binder. The whole cast gets plenty of help from Director Charles Vidor, who has kept the color warm, the lighting kind, and everything moving in waltz time. But Vidor got plenty of help from the man who wrote lines such as the one that Aunt Symphorosa (Estelle Winwood) once squeaks in horror...