Word: morleys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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LUTHER (ABC, 8:30-10 p.m.). John Osborne's 1961 drama of the 16th century monk who started the Reformation comes to TV, starring Robert Shaw as Martin Luther, Robert Morley as the Pope whom he opposed...
...rest of the program was more conventional--some Tompkins and Morley, sounding boxy and if it needed a chorus one quarter the size of the tour group, some incongrously Western-sounding "Asian" songs, and choruses from La Reine Indigo, by Johann Strauss, Jr. The saving grace of these choruses were some absurdly ornate soprano solos, masterfully executed by Carlotta Wilsen. Like the other successful pieces on the program, the Strauss was impressive primarily for its animation and coherence; when Asian Tour 1967 achieves these qualities more consistently it will be a fine performing group...
...NEWS (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). "Morley Safer's Viet Nam," a look at the land's many faces: the clamor of Saigon and the desolate boondocks; privileged ladies sipping tea with Madame Ky and women toiling in the paddyfields; men fighting in the jungle, girls bathing at the beach...
...Westmoreland on Viet Nam." Correspondents Charles Collingwood and Morley Safer interview U.S. General William C. Westmoreland at his headquarters in Saigon...
...actors work assiduously trying to put new bounce into a comedy written more than half a century ago by Georges Feydeau and Maurice Desvallières. Gina Lollobrigida, looking as delicately outraged as a piece of fine cracked china, plays the neglected bourgeois wife of bumptious Robert Morley. In revenge, she undertakes a night on the town with Neighbor Alec Guinness. The sly old seducer lures her to a disreputable inn where-true to formula-his promised evening of bliss ends up as a harmless orgy of slammed doors and mistaken identity, climaxed by a chase involving a fat lady...