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...Billie Burke, Maurice Chevalier, Charles Coburn, Richard Conte, Bing Crosby, Tony Curtis, Bobby Darin, Sammy Davis Jr., Jimmy Durante, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Greer Garson, Hedda Hopper, Ernie Kovacs, Peter Lawford, Janet Leigh, Jack Lemmon, Kim Novak, Dean Martin, Donna Reed, Debbie Reynolds, Edward G. Robinson, Cesar Romero, Frank Sinatra. * The citizens of Coventry, England, historically resented the soldiers quartered there and gave them the silent treatment...
While Cinemactor Peter Lawford pushed ahead with a talent-packed extravaganza aimed at paying off the $2,000,000 deficit of the recent Democratic campaign (TIME, Dec. 19), Peter's mother melodramatically moved to meet her own bills. In Hollywood, Lady Lawford, seventyish, a British subject ("I would have voted for Mr. Nixon"), took a salesgirl's position with a flossy local jeweler. She was to draw $50 a week for expenses, plus 5% on her sales. Her ladyship's friends explained that she is getting along on a $52-a-month British pension, with Lawford helping...
...producers of the 1961 extravaganza will be Sinatra and Lawford. The idea for the big show came from Philadelphia Contractor Matt McCloskey, the Democratic Party's national treasurer. "Frankie's an old friend of mine," explained McCloskey. "He told me, 'Matt, if you want me to do this thing, I'll get you all the talent you want.' " Frankie was as good as his word, thereupon unreeled a cast of characters that would stretch from Mocambo to Vegas. It includes Clansmen and Clans-women Dean Martin, Judy Garland, Sammy Davis Jr., Tony Curtis, Shirley...
...already sold out the 72 boxes, which seat ten people, at $10,000 a box," cried Pee-tah Lawford. "This will be the biggest take in show-business history for a one-nighter." Added Frankie: "We expect to raise $1,700,000 for the one night. There's never been anything like it." That's for sure...
...Leon Uris' forest-felling novel-it lasted 80 weeks on the bestseller lists and moved almost 4,000,000 copies-has all the production values expected in an epic: full color, wide screen, 45,000 extras, ten name players (Paul Newman, Eva Marie Saint, Sir Ralph Richardson, Peter Lawford, Lee J. Cobb, Sal Mineo, John Derek, Hugh Griffith, Gregory Ratoff, Felix Aylmer). What's more, it got these advantages at a spectacularly reduced rate. Shot on the cheap in Israel and Cyprus, Exodus cost less than $4,000,000 to put in the can and has already racked...