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Born. To Barbara Bel Geddes, 30, actress of stage (The Moon Is Blue) and screen (I Remember Mama), and Windsor Lewis, 34, summer-theater producerdirector: their first child, a daughter; in Manhattan. Weight...
...stage, is a great matinee piece," says Producer-Director Stanley Quinn, 35, who came to TV by way of Princeton and radio work in Australia. "Of course," he adds, "we give it tone every now & then with a little Wilde, a little Shakespeare." Working efficiently with his alternate producerdirector, ex-Vaudevillian Maury Holland, 43, Quinn has set up a well-oiled assembly line that uses low-salaried actors (maximum: $250), low-cost scripts (maximum: $500), and a tiny weekly budget of $6,000 (such dramatic rivals as Ford Theater, Philco Playhouse and Lucky Strike Theater average $20,000 a week...
Married. Anna Neagle, 34, fair-haired, cinemadaptable dancer-actress (Irene, Nurse Edith Cavell); and Herbert Wilcox, 49, British producerdirector, her longtime movie mentor; each for the first time; in London...
...problem of allocating radio time to the numerous Government agencies that wanted it. CBS elected to tell, each week, the story of whatever U.S. Government activity was uppermost in the news. Assigned to the job were CBS's clearheaded Washington correspondent, Albert L. Warner, and a producerdirector, Brewster Morgan, who had directed a Shakespearean theater in England, worked in Hollywood, got radio down cold in the Columbia Workshop...
Neat, retiring Herbert Wilcox, British producerdirector, kept the saga of Who? in mind while making Sunny II with his sparkling British star, Anna Neagle. Profiting by the lesson of No, No, Nanette (TIME, Dec. 30), which he made without featuring the musicomedy's best assets, the tuneful score of Vincent Youmans, he plugs Who? for all it is worth. Four different orchestrations deliver it in ballad, tap, choral and semi-rumba rhythm. Three more Kern tunes (Sunny, D'Ya Love Me?, Two Little Blue Birds) are tossed in for good measure...