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...other major trend-the show built around a star vocalist-is boomeranging. NBC's Perry Como and Dinah Shore, whose early success inspired the idea, enjoy the personal touch and the production support that still set them apart. Though her ratings have been ungallant, ABC's Patrice Munsel has given TV a welcome fillip of talented sex and voice appeal. But the Pat Boones, Giselle MacKenzies and Patti Pages have drawn neither rating nor rooting, and Guy Mitchell will get the ax at ABC this month. Biggest disappointment: Frank Sinatra, now busily trying to puff some life into...
...past 20 years, Firestone's National Advertising Manager A. J. McGinness has commuted almost every week between Akron and Manhattan studios to see that everything, including divas' temperaments, functions with pistonlike smoothness. McGinness once had to calm a frightened 17-year-old named Patrice Munsel, making her professional radio debut on the show, with a chocolate ice-cream soda. And recently, McGinness had to "play mother hen to mollify some embarrassed" ladies of the chorus who were undressing behind a flat that was suddenly "flown"' to the ceiling...
...Patrice Munsel: When she first appeared on TV six years ago, agile Coloratura Munsel, 32, took one look at herself in the monitor and decided: "I televise like a plate of worms." Last week Patrice came back with her own show looking more like a dish for the gods. The Metropolitan Opera's pinup girl has always cut a lissome figure, and her voice fills with rills and lusty high Fs; away from the mustiness of the Met, on TV she is freer to indulge her self-confessed "innate ham" with quick changes and buoyant tunes. The first...
...stables of Warner Bros. Biggest and most expensive property is tantrum-prone Frank Sinatra, who will headline two live hour-long spectaculars, 13 half-hour musicals on film and 23 filmed dramatic shows. Frankie's three-year contract will bring him about $4,500,000. Soprano Patrice Munsel will become the first star on the Metropolitan Opera roster to have her own TV series, and both bouncy Guy Mitchell and bland Pat Boone will head up their own variety shows. Warner is busy grinding out reels for a new "adult" horse opera called Sugar-foot to alternate with Cheyenne...
Offenbach's La Périchole, with Patrice Munsel, Theodor Uppman, Cyril Ritchard...