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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Around the World in 80 Days. Producer Mike Todd, with the help of Jules Verne, 46 stars and $6,000,000, has created the most spectacular travelogue ever seen on the screen (TIME...
From a small studio in Chicago's station WBBM came an infectious, high-pitched voice: "Hi, kids, my name's Susan." Then the big, fluttery eyes, shiny bangs and friendly full-moon face of Susan Heinkel, 12, brightened the TV screen. After eight ingratiating months as a mistress of ceremonies, star performer and pitchgirl (13 sponsors, e.g., Kellogg's, Pepsi-Cola) on Chicago's most popular local daytime show, Susan was doing her first network edition of Susan's Show over 69 stations (Sat., 11 a.m. E.D.T., CBS). Unruffled and unassuming ("We must remember...
...named Madame Zajj, and the blue moods of the orchestra panted toward violent climaxes. The show, U.S. Steel Hour's A Drum Is a Woman, was Jazzman Duke Ellington's most ambitious project in years, and also one of the fleshiest shows yet seen on the home screen. In fact Ellington's "allegorical tale of the origins of jazz" was a pretentious mishmash of primitive rhythms, pop tunes and sensuality. The sum of Drum was an interesting but meaningless collage, haphazard swatches of torrid rhythmic forms pasted on swirling globs of golds, indigos and vermilions. There were...
Around the World in 80 Days. Producer Mike Todd, with the help of Jules Verne, 46 stars and $6,000,000, has created the most spectacular travelogue ever seen on the screen (TIME...
Died. Grant Mitchell, 82, longtime (since 1902) character actor of stage (A Tailor-Made Man, Tide Rising) and screen (Hell's Kitchen, Cinderella Jones); in Hollywood...