Word: mgm
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WEDNESDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11 p.m.).* This Could Be the Night (MGM, 1957), a singularly crisp, sophisticated comedy in which Jean Simmons plays a schoolteacher who takes a part-time job in a nightclub owned by Paul Douglas and Anthony Franciosa...
...sounds remote from Hollywood and the Riviera, but it isn't, really, because "Yassy" is Princess Yasmin, 15, daughter of the late Aly Khan and Cinemactress Rita Hayworth, 46, whom she flew down to visit in Manhattan last week. Rita had just finished making The Money Trap for MGM, and seemed almost relieved to report that Yasmin hasn't yet shown any interest in acting. "She came to visit me in Madrid last winter when I was making Circus World, and when she saw me getting...
SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 8:30-11 p.m.). MGM's 1949 film Battleground, in which Van Johnson, John Hodiak, Ricardo Montalban, U.S. Senator George Murphy and a host of other names out of the old M-G-M stable re-fight the Battle of the Bulge...
...revolutionaries have just taken over a ten-acre mock-up of Moscow. The film is Doctor Zhivago, starring Egypt's Omar Sharif, Alec Guinness, Ralph Richardson and, as Zhivago's young wife, Charlie Chaplin's 20-year-old daughter Geraldine. At $10 million, it is MGM's most free-spending spectacular since...
Died. Jeanette MacDonald, 57, Hollywood's reigning soprano in the 1930s and early '40s, who teamed with Nelson Eddy to make eight slight, sweet, surefire musicals (Naughty Marietta, Rose Marie), becoming one of MGM's biggest drawing cards, later embarking on a second, modestly successful career as a touring concert singer, all the while remaining happily married, since 1937, to Actor Gene Raymond; of a heart attack; in Houston...