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Other stars, hearing this, scarcely look up. They are too busy making their own commercials. In the olden days-that is, in the earlier 1950s-the idea of an established star's barking on TV for a commercial product was unthinkable. Now Barbara Stanwyck, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Taylor, Claudette Colbert and Edward G. Robinson all appear for Maxwell House, too-but only for $50,000 apiece. You can hear Robinson clearly enough, as he looks toughly over the brew and snarls...
Sure enough, it's Elvis Presley. Just after the film begins he oozes up to his carnivalentine (Joan Freeman) and attaches that mouth to her face. She staggers back in alarm, but the old softie (Barbara Stanwyck) who owns the show takes a liking to the lunk and pays him to sing pretty for the people. He doesn't sing very pretty, but there are compensations-when he starts singing he stops acting. Anyway, just before the film ends Elvis presents a fairly stiff upper lip, pays off the mortgage, gets the girl. "Git closuh," he instructs...
...actors. A deeply trained Shakespearean, he novelly plays Richard with strength at the start, gradually shading him into weakness. He is also candid about the shortcomings of earlier actors in the role. Alec Guinness, he says, "was impressive without being definitive." Michael Redgrave "played it like Barbara Stanwyck with a mustache." Gielgud? "I guess he thought Richard was a neurasthenic who could cry at the drop of a crown." As for the play itself, in which Richard's queen is a young child, Hutt says: "It out-Humberts Humbert. It should be retitled Take Her, She's Nine...
SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). MGM's 1954 all-star Executive Suite with William Holden, Nina Foch, Barbara Stanwyck, June Allyson, Fredric March, Shelley Winters, Walter Pidgeon, Dean Jagger, Paul Douglas and Louis Calhern...
Tallyho. Actors with plain, pronounceable, American Legion sort of names yearn for toning up. Ruby Stevens is Barbara Stanwyck; Peggy Middleton is Yvonne De Carlo; Norma Jeane Baker is Marilyn Monroe. Even Gladys Smith found a little more stature in the name Mary Pickford. On the other hand, embarrassed bluebloods shed their hyphens and thus declare their essential homogeneity with the masses. Reginald Truscott-Jones was too obviously soaked in tallyho. He became Ray Milland. Spangler Arlington Brugh denuded himself of all his nominal raiment and emerged as Robert Taylor. Audrey Hepburn-Ruston amputated it neatly...