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...Call Me Madam (20th Century-Fox), the 1950 Broadway hit musical, has become a handsome, hilarious, surefire hit movie. Ethel Merman struts and shouts her way through her original stage role as a diamond-in-the-rough lady ambassador. Irving Berlin's catchy score is practically intact (dropped: the topical I Like Ike; added: Berlin's 1913 The International Rag and his 1940 What Chance Have I with Love?). At its Technicolored best-with Walter Lang's zestful direction, Robert Alton's dances and a topnotch supporting cast-the movie is a bouncier, better show than...
...Abbott & Costello, Eddie Cantor, Bob Hope) of the TV Comedy Hour (Sun. 8 p.m., NBC). Even Hollywood took another, longer look at its perennial adolescent. O'Connor began to get good song & dance jobs in such top-budget musicals as Singin' in the Rain and Call Me Madam...
...libbed additions to his routine with Sid Miller, and sang a ballad, Dreaming, for which he wrote the music and Miller the words). In spare moments throughout the week, he met with his associates in Donald O'Connor Enterprises, Inc., dozed through the Hollywood premiere of Call Me Madam ("After all, I'd seen the show before"), conferred with Cartoonist Gene Cibelli, his collaborator on a book satirizing life in Hollywood, and listened to new tunes submitted to his music-publishing house of O'Connor & Miller...
Ford Theater (Thurs. 9:30 p.m., NBC). Yvonne de Carlo in Madam...
...ended shortly, and having thus neatly disposed of the Gestapo, Yeo-Thomas went back to handling the customers of Molyneux. "Madam," he replied with tactful understatement to the lady who had wondered about His war experience, "I was in the Royal Air Force...