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Cloudy Screen. By sundown, Sunday's quality shows disappear in a flood of guns, games and dramas like the Roy Rogers Show, Earn Your Vacation, the College of Musical Knowledge, the Loretta Young Show and What's My Line? These shows are not bad in themselves-but they offer a cloud no bigger than a TV screen on the Sunday horizon. The increase in their numbers means that network program directors have discovered that Sunday can be a pretty good thing after all. In this frame of mind, they could spoil everything by making Sunday an everyday affair...
...brothers of a proud Mexican family-one an eager young beginner in the bull ring, the other a has-been turned thug and procurer. A victim of his own bitterness, the elder brother (well played by Cinemactor Kurd Hatfield) ruins everyone around him, rapes his sister-in-law (Loretta Leversee), and even accidentally causes his younger brother's death in the ring. "It has flavor . . . depth and feeling," wrote the Times'?, Brooks Atkinson. "Mr. Stevens has real talent for theater writing, being well aware of the fact that drama is intimately related to poetry and music." Playwright Stevens...
...Hollywood talent. Joan Crawford was on television playing the suffering wife of an unfaithful husband; Marilyn Monroe was cavorting on Jack Benny's show; Ava Gardner, as the mystery guest on a quiz program, was answering embarrassing questions ("Are you married and are you happy about it?"); Loretta Young, Ray Milland and Joan Caulfield were turning up each week on their own programs; Arlene Dahl, Ray Bolger, Agnes Moorehead and young Brandon De Wilde were beginning big TV roles...
...operated under a full head of steam. After the opening, she cried: "Imagine! They're paying me all this money to do the things I do at parties for free!" She is famous in Hollywood for her ability to clown a dying party back on to its feet. Loretta Young recalls that at many a fading soirée, Ros has come up to her and urged: "Oh, let's save it! What can we think up?" (One gathering got off to a bright start when Ros and Loretta appeared as the Toni Twins.) Van Johnson...
Nonetheless, it began a period of professional setbacks. In return for directing Sister Kenny, Dudley Nichols asked Rosalind to appear in his production of Eugene O'Neill's Mourning Becomes Electra. Ros felt that she had to agree, but told her good friend Loretta Young: "I can't imagine what I'm doing in this picture-it's all hate!" Mourning Becomes Electra proved an even bigger financial flop than Sister Kenny. These disasters steeled Ros's determination to return to the stage. While feverishly reading playscripts, she contributed to her movie decline with...