Word: screens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...model and the mother of a 13-year-old daughter, Betty, 36, was a stage & screen actress before she went to work for Westinghouse two years ago. At the time she was rehearsing a part for Westinghouse's Studio One TV show, which was trying out women announcers with no success. Finally, a director who liked her pleasant voice and housewifely appeal gave her some commercial copy to try. She changed the copy a little ("It was written like men think women talk"), came off fine...
...spare time making a needlepoint chair seat. During her working hours at the two conventions she opened 49 Westinghouse refrigerator doors, peered into 12 Westinghouse ovens, demonstrated 23 Westinghouse washing machines and dishwashers, turned on 42 Westinghouse television sets. Before it was over, she had been on the screen in all a total of 4½ hours...
Affair in Trinidad (Columbia) brings ambrosial Rita Hayworth back to the screen as a Trinidad nightclub entertainer who is described as "a woman with a capital W." This sentiment is roundly endorsed by Glenn Ford, who plays the older brother of Rita's husband, an artist found dead under mysterious circumstances. Another admirer of Rita's is suave Alexander Scourby, a tycoon who keeps mad dogs on his estate and is given to poring over super-rocket plans in the company of various gentlemen with Iron Curtain accents...
...most filmed of Scott's 25 novels. Other screen versions of Ivanhoe: a three-reel Hollywood production made in 1913 with King Baggot in the title role, and a 1913 British six-reeler entitled Rebecca the Jewess...
...Producer Nunnally Johnson, the premise does not always live up to its promise. Far & away the best sequence: baggy-eyed Fred Allen being wed to a bored Ginger Rogers by fuddy-duddy Justice of the Peace Victor Moore in one of the funniest marriage ceremonies ever seen on the screen...