Word: neva
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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First stop for the presidential Constellation, the Columbine, was Minneapolis, where Ike was provided with a foolproof, all-American test of his popularity. Ten minutes before he was due to begin his speech to the U.S. Junior Chamber of Commerce convention, officials ushered on to the stage beauteous Neva Jane Langley, Miss America of 1953. The screams and cheers which greeted Miss Langley lasted 35 seconds. When Ike appeared, the Jaycees, who represented some 2,500 U.S. communities, tore the house down for a minute and a half...
Plymouth Playhouse (Sun. 7:30 p.m., ABC). The Turning Point, with Neva Patterson, Richard Kiley...
Lost Hour. Maurice Evans' considerable triumph is the more impressive because he had to sandwich TV rehearsals between his performances in the Broadway hit, Dial 'M' for Murder. On the day before he went on the air, Evans (as well as Actors Barry Jones, Neva Patterson and Francis Bethencourt, all of whom are in Broadway plays) had to act in a matinee and evening performance, lost an hour's sleep with the change to daylight saving time, and then began the final Hamlet rehearsals...
...Neva Patterson is capable as Ewell's wife, but the two other principles, Robert Emhardt and George Keane, both deliver lines as if they were reading something untasteful. Emhardt plays a psychiatrist whose text is being turned into a red-hot 25 cent seller by Ewell's pocket book company, but he ruins his lines, the only really accomplished part of the dialogue, with a bad case of dramatic insincerity...
Donald Cook manages to make something quite comic out of his Southern boozehound. His acting is a line job of underplaying and exact timing. If the other stars had the same energetic approach things might be a little more interesting. Neva Patterson appears briefly as a Conover model. Miss Patterson is not only a dazzling woman but a fine actress, and it's too bad that she has been given a part that is poorly written...