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...Prisoner of Zenda has been made into four movies, but not a Broadway musical until this season, when Alfred Drake will star in Zenda, which takes some liberties with the original novel: the English gentleman hero is now a song and dance man on tour (Nov. 26). Budd Schulberg has turned his novel What Makes Sammy Run? into a musical (Feb. 4). And Negro Novelist Langston Hughes has adapted his Tambourines to Glory for musical presentation as well, wherein two Negro women establish a church in Harlem (Oct. 26). Before his death, Clifford Odets completed the book-adaptation...
Died. Jerry Wald, 49, chunky, eclectic moviemaker whose perpetual motion picturing made him one of Hollywood's most prolific producers (The Man Who Came to Dinner, Mildred Pierce, Peyton Place, From Here to Eternity); whose detractors claimed he was the prototype for the fast-rising heel in Budd Schulberg's What Makes Sammy Run?, left a vice-presidency at Columbia Pictures in 1956 to form his own company, had as many as 24 films before the cameras at the same time, once remarking, "If I were a multimillionaire, I'd pick this business as a hobby...
Scott Fitzgerald and Budd Schulberg had never reported on Hollywood mores. With an air of almost embarrassing innocence, O'Hara introduces the cigar-chomping Hollywood producer who speaks in broken English, the star whose bed is in the public domain. His hero Hubie is something less than an ersatz, goyische Sammy Click...
...gave the jazz age its name. Since 1950, annual sales of his books have climbed 400%; his novels have been converted to movies as fast as Hollywood could find stars to play them (most recently, Tender Is the Night); his life has been fictionalized (by Budd Schulberg in The Disenchanted); his last mistress (Hollywood Columnist Sheilah Graham) has issued her memoirs; his notebooks and diaries have been edited by Edmund Wilson (The Crack-Up); and he has become a popular target for Ph.D. theses and those solemn essays in amateur psychoanalysis that often pass for criticism...
General Electric Theater (CBS, 9-9:30 p.m.). Budd Schulberg's The Legend That Walks like a Man, an inside Hollywood story, with Ernest Borgnine. Repeat...