Word: showings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Valerie Bettis, 28, discovered as a gaminish youngster that "when I was dancing, I knew who I was." She studied in Manhattan with Hanya Holm, and in 1941 gave a debut recital. Her The Desperate Heart won big notices in 1943. But it was not until Valerie stopped the show in Bea Lillie's Inside U.S.A. last year with her tawny "Tiger Lily" dance that anyone but modern dance devotees was very sure...
...Aldrich Family. Ezra Stone has long been radio's Henry Aldrich, a callow, voice-cracking adolescent. Since Stone (a master sergeant in World War II) is now fat, 32 and balding, he says: "On TV it will have to be a different show, with a new Henry. Our radio technique of abrupt sequences and staccato action will change to quieter, more restrained comedy...
Amos 'n' Andy. For the past 21 years, Charles Correll and Freeman Gosden have played the title roles and most of the other parts of their radio classic. They will not go with the show to television. Still undecided: whether the cast shall be white or Negro, or both...
...Life of Riley. Moose-jawed Cinemactor William Bendix, who has been Riley for four seasons, has Hollywood movie work to do, will be replaced when the show moves...
...Abner. A newcomer to the air, this program, based on Al Capp's comic strip, typifies the casting problems faced by TV directors who, in this case, must search for reasonably accurate facsimiles of Dogpatch denizens. The show would be easy to cast for radio. For television, more than 4,544 actors have been interviewed for the title role and for Daisy Mae, but no one has been definitely decided...