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Jackie Gleason is the one overt performer in Take Me Along, but he displays more of a vaudeville than a video air as he and Walter Pidgeon do a delightful soft-shoe dance, or as he says: "There are 14 saloons in this town, and I've never set foot in one of them-the one on 4th Street." But Actor Pidgeon, with his plaintive middle-aged joke in Staying Young, and Robert Morse, with his just-right teen-age theatrics in I Would Die, and Eileen Herlie, hilariously spinsterish about the facts of life in I Get Embarrassed...
Safe & Superlative. In both spectaculars, which went on the air within four days of each other, Susskind was backing a sure thing. Meet Me matched the light-fingered direction of George (Green Pastures) Schaefer with a cameraful of Hollywood glamour: Myrna Loy, Walter Pidgeon, Jeanne Crain, Tab Hunter, Jane Powell, Ed Wynn. The Browning Version was also star-packed: Sir John Gielgud, Margaret Leighton, Cecil Parker, Robert Stephens. With so much to offer, neither show could fail. And in the case of The Browning Version, Gielgud's superlative performance could have done the job alone. Sir John...
Swiss Family Robinson (NBC, 6:30-7 p.m.). Johann Wyss's fine old classic brings the marooned Robinsons back to life, with Walter Pidgeon and Laraine...
...dealers in 48 cities of 32 states. Hired for $7,500, Commentator Edward R. Murrow emceed the show, used his Person to Person format to interview top Harvester officers about products and plans. To promote its Yellow Pages, American Telephone & Telegraph Co. a fortnight ago hired Cinemactor Walter Pidgeon to emcee a 59-city closed-circuit TV show for potential classified advertisers and member phone companies...
There are a good many moments when Father or fisticuffs, Angier or Mrs. Duke make life at 2104 Walnut Street fun. In the title role, Walter Pidgeon seems an authentic enough Biddle, though perhaps not an eccentric enough Anthony J., and George Grizzard proves an engaging Angier. But there are a good many moments when Philadelphia might as well be Kansas City, when the Biddle clan might as well be cardboard, when there is no elegance or stuffiness to point up Father's antics, and when, accordingly, there is very little fun to the show. What has too often...