Word: shelleys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week studded with good dramatic revivals on NBC, the biggest and best was the Producers' Showcase lavish production of The Women. This feline free-for-all, written in 1936 by Clare Boothe Luce, remains an actresses' field day, and Ruth Hussey, Shelley Winters, Mary Astor, Nancy Olson, Valerie Bettis and Cathleen Nesbitt waged an exciting conflict for domination of the manless stage. A few of the more trenchant lines were dropped from the TV version of the play, and Paulette Goddard and Mary Boland seemed miscast as the viper-tongued Sylvia Fowler and the gigolo-collecting Countess...
Producers' Showcase (Mon. 8 p.m., NBC). Clare Boothe Luce's The Women, with Shelley Winters, Paulette Goddard, Ruth Hussey, Mary Astor, Mary Boland...
...opening article by D. J. Golden, not even quotations from Gray, Coleridge, or Shelley warrant the almost two columns of space. Limpert characterizes his own "Something for the Pit" with his phrase ". . . a symphony of boredom . . ." J. F. Fletcher's "Imogene and the Parrot" is well-written, but no more, and the attempt at high-pressure humor in "A Message to Ganglia" is sadly unsuccessful...
Climax! (Thurs. 8:30 p.m., CBS). Shelley Winters in the old radio favorite, Sorry, Wrong Number...
...came to deliver a vacuum cleaner. "That boy doesn't need a vacuum cleaner," he said. "He needs a plow." The mess was at its worst in the days when Marlon had a pet raccoon, but even before that, it sometimes got pretty bad. Actress Shelley Winters reports that when Marlon and Comic Wally Cox shared a Manhattan apartment, they once undertook to paint the walls of the place. Says Shelley: "They painted one wall and then, for one solid year, the canvas, the buckets of paint and the brushes lay on the living-room floor. They just stepped...