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...Horizontal Lieutenant (M-G-M). Funnyman Jim Hutton, 26, is an unpolished bean pole (6 ft. 3 in.) who gangles at all angles like the second-string center on a Y.M.C.A. basketball squad, but sputters sourprises like a bright, green Lemmon. Funnywoman Paula Prentiss, 23, is a Texas skyscraper (5 ft. 9¼ in.) who can look slim Jim in the eye without a periscope, and can come on and cut up like a junior-miss Rosalind Russell. If humor were measured in inches, Hutton and Prentiss would be the daffiest double in show business; since...
...sack (he reports for duty by hitting the wrong pedal, ramming his jeep through the side of a building, parking it smartly beside the C.O.'s desk), but ends it as a hero (he captures the gefilte-fisherman). The nut occasionally has a date: Lieutenant Prentiss, a nurse who in civilian life was "just a tall girl, but now I'm a short commodity." When he wants to get in trouble, he unfortunately has a buddy: an industrious Nisei (Yoshio Yoda) who labors day and night to "indoctrinate" every native girl on the island. And when he wants...
...taping TV shows, the actors are willing to work for Equity minimum just to submit themselves to the sterner discipline of the stage. Robert Ryan starred in the group's Sodom and Gomorrah, Nina Foch in U.S.A., Edie Adams and Eileen Heckart in Mother Courage. Last week Paula Prentiss and Dan O'Herlihy opened in Houseman's superb new production of Measure for Measure, and the group's next production will be the world premiere of a new play based on John Hersey's The Child Buyer...
...Honeymoon Machine. This is the Hollywood machine in a rare moment of felicitous clank, turning out a slick, quick, funny comedy about sailors, girls, a roulette table and a computing machine. With Steve McQueen and Paula Prentiss...
...Honeymoon Machine. This is the Hollywood machine in a rare moment of felicitous clank, turning out a slick, quick, funny comedy about sailors, girls, a roulette table and a computing machine. With Steve McQueen and Paula Prentiss...