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Married. Burl Icle Ivanhoe Ives, 36, large (270 Ibs.) as life and twice as natural folksinger (Blue-Tail Fly, Foggy, Foggy Dew); and Helen Ehrlich, 29, his onetime radio scripter; he for the first time, she for the second; in Chicago...
...also exciting-because the screen is so unaccustomed to plain talk-to see and hear the angry discussion of postwar prospects which Scripter Albert Maltz has written for the hospitalized marines. Effectively outspoken, too, is Lee Diamond's reminder, to Al, that blindness gives him no monopoly on job handicaps-that Diamond himself has been plentifully handicapped all his life because...
Manhattan's Literary Guild snapped up James Hilton's So Well Remembered (Little, Brown; $2.50)-catching it on the fly to Hollywood, where such earlier creations as Lost Horizon have fattened Author-Scripter Hilton's purse, made his characters familiar to millions. Other famed Hilton pictures: Knight Without Armor; Goodbye, Mr. Chips; Random Harvest (see cut). British Author Hilton and Chinese Author Lau Shaw proved brothers under the skin. Both proffered an amiable, spotless husband married to a woman more harpy than human. Each seemed to feel his harpy-heroine typified the evil forces against which...
Formula for Fibber. Much credit for the success of their propagandizing belongs to Don Quinn, the man who writes the show (NBC, Tuesdays, 9:30 p.m., E.W.T.). He was the first radio scripter to see profit in building an entire comedy show around one of the subjects which OWI allots to radio each month. (Most programs either confine themselves to a sly line or two, or else beat the listeners' ears back with earnest messages...
...part they can play in creating erotic and moral atmospheres. There are even moments when handsome Linda Darnell embodies the natural force she is portraying. And Edward Everett Horton somehow manages to suggest that a Tsarist rake would look and act like Edward Everett Horton. But too much of Scripter-Director Douglas Sirk's effort is polysyllabic, "cultered" and Little Theaterish...