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...first episode, Actor's Blood, is a rather anemic whodunit about the murder of an unpleasant stage actress (Marsha Hunt) whose ham-actor father (Edward G. Robinson) stages a dinner party to which he invites all the suspects. Except for the solution, there are few surprises in this piece of old-fashioned mummery...
Freberg, who first hit the satirical record big time with his John and Marsha take-off on soap operas, got the idea for Try while eating in a Hollywood restaurant. The jukebox kept droning Johnny Ray records-"and pretty soon I'm up to my hips in tears...
...tells of young Minerva Pinney (Marsha Hunt), who quarrels with the arrogant young writer (Tom Helmore) she is living with in Greenwich Village, and goes back to her New England home. Descendant of a Revolutionary War heroine who once detained General Howe for four days-whether from passion or patriotism-Minerva gets involved with a foundation that wants to honor her ancestress by "restoring" the town. She gets even more involved when the young writer turns up. The play gets most involved of all trying to keep afloat...
...turn-of-the-century Manhattan with a father-doesn't-approve love story. June Haver, one of three overprotected daughters of a crotchety Irish widower (James Barton), defies the old man by going into show business and taking up with Showman Tony Pastor (Gordon MacRae). Another daughter (Marsha Jones), who has already defied him by marrying secretly, is expecting twins. The central gag: learning that one of the girls is pregnant, Barton suspects the worst of June. The music and dance routines strike an efficient, lusterless com promise between vaudeville of the Tony Pastor era and the kind...
Studio One (Mon. 10 p.m., CBS-TV). Willow Cabin with Marsha Hunt...