Word: screens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Married. Margaret Leighton, 35, veteran British star of stage (the Old Vic, Separate Tables) and screen (The Constant Husband); and Laurence Harvey, 28, Lithuanian-born, dark-haired British cinemactor (I Am a Camera, Romeo and Juliet), who was named as corespondent in her 1955 divorce from Publisher Max Reinhardt; she for the second time, he for the first; in Gibraltar...
Born. To Rosemary Clooney, 29, singing star of jukebox, TV and screen (Red Garters), and José Ferrer, 45, Puerto Rican-born stage actor-director (The Shrike) and film star (The Great Man): their third child, second son, prematurely (6½ months); in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Gabriel Vincente. Weight...
...Hatful of Rain. The love of Eva Marie Saint pitted against the addiction of her screen husband Don Murray demonstrates compassionately how horror can stalk into a humdrum living room (TIME...
...talent chief. Arnow inspected her with a routine but practiced eye, advised her to lose some weight and return. When he met her again by chance in the office of Agent Louis Shurr, she had lost the weight-at least enough for Arnow to see possibilities. He ordered a screen test, soon was excitedly telephoning colleagues: "I've got the girl." Against her parents' advice ("I never could see that sort of business. I still can't," says Mrs. Novak), Marilyn signed a contract starting at $100 a week...
Televiewers know what they do when the commercial comes on the screen, but sponsors hate to believe it. In Detroit last week, executives of the Ford Motor Co. brooded over the results of a ten-city survey in which 2,600 set owners were quizzed within 30 minutes of the time five TV programs (Zane Grey Theater, Tennessee Ernie Ford Show, G.E. Theater, Ford Theater, DuPont Cavalcade) went off the air. The first jolt was the discovery that only 10.3% of the sample (270 people) had seen the shows in question. The next was the discovery that fully...