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Last week, in prime evening time, NBC bravely sent Mr. Novak to war against ABC's Combat, and CBS's Marshal Dillon on the theory that he can divert millions of viewers from shooting to scholarship. His "Jefferson High," founded at MGM's Culver City studios, is based on research at 50 live high schools. In real life Novak is Actor James Franciscus, 29, onetime flatfoot on Naked City. He went to Taft and Yale and never attended a public school, but he is handsomer than TV Hardin and can speak real English out of both sides...
...earlier pioneer in what may prove to be a nocturnal trend is Los Angeles' KTTV, which inaugurated its "All Night Show" six months ago. Featuring films from the MGM backlog, the program includes guest visits from local bigs and wellwishers like Sammy Davis Jr., Joey Bishop and Shelley Berman, who drop in after their own late shows if they are working at local nightclubs. The station estimates that its audience has grown to nearly half a million. "We have no ratings," says KTTV, "because no one dares call at that time of night...
Mutiny on the Bounty. Trevor Howard, as Captain Bligh, is all man and a yardarm wide in MGM's $18.5 million reconstruction of The Bounty, but Marlon Brando has chosen to play Fletcher Christian as a sort of hard-alee Hamlet...
Michigan's Lenore LaFount Romney, 52, daughter of a federal radio commissioner under Calvin Coolidge. When Lenore moved to New York to study acting, George Romney, then working in Washington, courted her on weekends. By 1930, she was a bit player for MGM, appeared in movies with Greta Garbo and Jean Harlow. She was on the verge of signing a three-year contract-but George signed her up first. They were married in 1931, and Lenore is now the mother of four. When she gets settled in the Governor's mansion, Lenore wants to make "a real breakthrough...
Mutiny on the Bounty. Trevor Howard, as Captain Bligh, is all man and a yardarm wide in MGM's $18.5 million reconstruction of The Bounty, but Marlon Brando has chosen to play Fletcher Christian as a sort of hard-alee Hamlet...