Word: sothern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nine hours of U.S. shows. And the BBC supplied another eight. Caught up in the cultural invasion, armchair wayfarers could head out with Wagon Train or Highway Patrol. With tea they got Annie Oakley, Mickey Mouse, Popeye; with cocktails it was Lucille Ball in Lucy or Ann (Private Secretary) Sothern; with the bedtime mild-and-bitter came OSS, or Lee Marvin's M Squad. On commercial channels in the south, Midlands, and north, screens flashed with Wild Bill Hickok, Lassie. Joe Friday, Martin Kane or Flash Gordon...
...service. Latest western reading: four of the top five nighttime shows, eleven of the top 20. The roundup: Gunsmoke (37-7), Wagon Train (32.4), Danny Thomas (32.1), Have Gun, Will Travel (30.8), Wells Fargo (30.2), Desilu Playhouse (30.1), I've Got a Secret (29.5), Wyatt Earp (29.2), Ann Sothern Show (28.7), Cheyenne (28.2), Peter Gunn (27.8), Real McCoys (27.5), Rifleman (27.5), The Price Is Right (27.4), Want-ed-Dead or Alive (27.3), Alfred Hitchcock Presents (27.1), Father Knows Best (27.0), General Electric Theatre (26.6), Texan (26.4), Maverick (26.3). Of the top 20, CBS has 11, ABC five, NBC four...
Born. To Singing Actress Anne Jeffreys, 35, and Actor Robert Sterling, 41, the ghost husband and wife in TV's Topper series: their second child, second son (he has a daughter by a previous marriage to Actress Ann Sothern); in Burbank, Calif. Name: Robert Dana. Weight...
...nothing wrong for six years of / Love Lucy, did very little right last week in Lucy Takes a Cruise, the first of their new hour-long "musical variety" shows. Because Desi felt his filmed show was "just too funny to cut," Lucy cruised to Havana with Guest Stars Ann Sothern and Rudy Vallee through 75 minutes of bumbling sight gags and strangulated cliches, e.g., a loveless Lucy's groan, "They weren't kidding when they said this ship was on its maiden voyage." Fortunately, saucer-eyed Lucille took her lumps with undiminished zest and even worked her putty...
...Manhattan's staid Hotel Plaza, veteran Cinemactress-TV Comedienne Ann (Private Secretary) Sothern, 47, perplexed by billows of smoke that rolled from the fireless fireplace of her 14th-floor suite, opened her windows and sounded the alarm. Firemen appeared, then rushed down twelve stories to learn that a guest in a second-floor apartment, after igniting some logs in its fireplace, doused them on observing that the flue was all but clogged. The absent tenant of the lower suite: Architectitan Frank Lloyd Wright, 87, a great fireplace fancier, who has also been known to prohibit smoking by people...