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...Amos Niven Wilder, Hollis professor of divinity at Harvard...
...physical as possible: Gobel takes pratfalls on land and sea, at home and abroad. When he isn't getting pie in the face, he is compelled to read limp double-entendres, make love to a girl taller than himself (Mitzi Gaynor) and play straight man to David Niven...
...plot: Simple-Simon Gobel, heir to a frankfurter fortune, is dogged by Fortune Hunters Niven and Gaynor. In mid-picture, Gobel concludes that Mitzi wants his pelf, instead of his self, and renounces her. Producer Paul Jones liked this idea so much that he has it played all over again, but it is not much funnier the second time around. About the only bright note: the catchy title song neatly handled by Gobel and Gaynor...
Dick Powell, who, after running Four Star Playhouse in partnership with David Niven, Charles Boyer and Ida Lupino, was dropped by CBS in favor of a CBS-owned program, Playhouse 90. Cried Powell: "I think the network is getting to be monopolistic...
...Married. Niven Busch, 52, novelist (Duel in the Sun) and screenwriter (In Old Chicago, The Westerner); and Carmencita Baker, 28, West Coast socialite; he for the fourth time (his third: Cinemactress Teresa Wright), she for the first; in San Francisco...