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...Mama's boarders on relief. Ultimately, Alva follows her lover-man to the Big City where she tries both streetwalking and light housekeeping with Redford before fleeing into a rainstorm one wretched night to catch a fatal cold. Sister Willie, in a teary epilogue, attributes Alva's off-screen death to "lung affection...
...ruins." The actor who plays Hitler, Billy Frick, is so exact a look-alike that he is afraid to leave the set except mustacheless and in mufti. The porcine, Prussian-looking fellow cast as General von Choltitz worries less, for during the past year he has got as many off-screen hisses as autograph requests. His name is Gert Frobe, but no one remembers him as anything but that malevolent archvillain in his most famed film. Gold finger...
...medium. Scenes photographed with the camera on its side or shown in negative remind one not of the unseen creator but of the nature of his materials. Godard employs a whole catalogue of cinematic tricks--intertitles before the monologues, subtitles supplementing dialogue, jump cuts, characters whispering their thoughts from off-screen, sudden shattering increases in volume and so on--to make The Married Woman "pure" or art-for-art's-sake cinema...
...Frank Sinatra's good ship Southern Breeze. But Paul Monash, executive producer of ABC's Peyton Place, needed Mia Farrow's cruise like a hole in the hull. For one thing, Peyton Place had all the voyeur interest it needed on-screen without any help from off-screen publicity. For another, even before all the headlines from Cape Cod, Peyton Place's ratings were about as high as they could go. "Realistic Escapism." When Peyton Place was first announced for the 1964-65 season, the industry wondered if ABC programming had been taken over by some...
...NEWS SPECIAL (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).* A memorial tribute to the late President Kennedy, retracing the main events of his Administration. The many off-screen narrators include Adlai Stevenson, McGeorge Bundy, Hubert Humphrey, Allen Dulles and Theodore Sorensen...