Word: kraft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sandals & Shooting. Kraft TV Theater also took a flyer at the toga-and-sandal crowd with Whim of Iron, a halfhearted comedy about Byzantine days and nights which came out so ineptly that its author, Michael Dyne, insisted on being identified over the air as "Michael Roberts." Explained Dyne's agent: "That's the only form of protest a writer on television...
...Kraft TV Theater looked into the case of Mary Surratt, hanged in 1865 for complicity in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, and, like most historians, found her innocent. Doreen Lang captured believably the quality of a woman too pure-minded to know or guess at the plot that was hatched in her own house; the military court that condemned her to death had that toplofty disregard for the evidence that seems to identify all judges who hear cases with their minds already made...
...Kraft TV Theater (Wed. 9 p.m., NBC). The Southwest Corner, with Eva Le Gallienne and Broadway cast...
There were some off-the-air items of note: 1) Patterns, the hit Kraft TV Theater show written by Rod Serling (TIME, Jan. 24), is scheduled to become a movie produced by Broadway's Jed Harris; 2) TV Producer Lou Cowan depressed sensitive viewers by announcing that a new quiz called The $64,000 Question is being readied for June. The gimmick: a lucky contestant, by continuously doubling his stake, can run $1 to a maximum of $64,000. This will take weeks, and when the money gets big enough, the contestant will be imprisoned in a glass-enclosed...
...recent trend, e.g., Dragnet, is to turn TV plays into movies, using the TV shows as publicity buildups. Several studios and independents are bidding for Patterns, the TV play about big business that got a repeat performance fortnight ago on Kraft TV Theater (TIME. Feb. 21). Seven other TV shows have either been made into movies or are under consideration, including Marty, Dear Phoebe, Halls of Ivy and Waterfront...