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...move (or movie) without calling Righter. Marlene Dietrich, whose respect for the master shot up when he correctly predicted that she would break her ankle in a studio accident, uses airplanes only when he gives the nod. Arlene Dahl, Robert Cummings, Rhonda Fleming, the Gabors, Hildegarde Neff, Adolphe Menjou, Tab Hunter, Susan Hayward, Red Skelton-all would rather pay Righter than the piper. Some use him more than others. Says Mrs. Van Johnson: "I don't ask Carroll when I should go to the bathroom, like some of our friends...
...forewarned by trade journals, wise West German grocers are busily stocking up on the ingredients. After Clemens Wilmenrod, Der Fernsehkoch (The Television Cook), tells the Hausfrauen how to make it, Swiss cream is sure to be a favorite dessert-and Clemens plans to pass the word soon. The balding, Menjou-mustached, ample-jowled Fernsehkoch last week was well into his seventh year on the air, with the oldest and most popular show on West German...
VERREE TEASDALE MENJOU Beverly Hills, Calif...
...Television Programs Inc., largest of the TV film syndicators that have made a $100 million industry out of quickie adventure series for non-network distribution, whooped that their boys make at least as much money as any of the high-priced network talent. Adolphe Menjou grossed $235,000 from Target last year, Lloyd Bridges $300,000 from Sea Hunt, and Richard Carlson will make $287,000 from Mackenzie's Raiders this year. Meanwhile, Jack Paar struggles along on $200,000 for NBC, and CBS's James Arness, whose Gunsmoke has hit the top of the ratings, toils...
Fallen Heart. The Oscar Levant Show repels some people and delights most. Drawing on his motley acquaintance, Levant has corralled both name stars and intellectuals as his guests. Eddie Cantor was followed by Christopher Isherwood, Adolphe Menjou by Aldous Huxley, Red Skelton by Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas. His subjects run the gamut from highly intellectual topics to brutal digs. Isherwood told him: "You are like a Dostoevsky character-completely unmasked at all times...