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Manager Bill Rigney's pitching, thanks to the acquisition of Sad Sam Jones and Jack Sanford, seems set. Johnny Antonelli won 16 last year and should improve on that figure, Mike McCormack is ready for stardom, and Stu Miller and Al Worthington should prove helpful. The Giants are stronger than last year, but they are still a little young...
Playhouse 90 (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). The Dingaling Girl by Playwright J. P. Miller (who made a name for himself with The Days of Wine and Roses last year) is a new treatment of the old tale about a shy young housewife catapulted to Hollywood stardom. In the cast: Diane Varsi as the modest heroine, Sam Jaffe as the shrewd director, Eddie Albert as the poor but ambitious husband...
...contrast to its star shortage, Bombay alone has 225 producers, including Actress Madhubala, 25. Unlike Madhubala's secure stardom, her role as a producer is fraught with peril. An Indian producer can afford to stay in business only by setting up a new company for each movie, then quickly dissolving it one jump ahead of the creditors. Chief reason: most of the movie capital comes from tightfisted film distributors-and the distributors are in turn bilked by the exhibitors, whose 33% chunk of total movie revenue is topped only by the government's 36%. For a producer, only...
...battle for his protégée. Through a London gossip column, U.S. Moviemaker Carl Foreman irritably reported that Zanuck was over-pushing Greco for a fat part in Foreman's new picture, Guns of Navarone. Zanuck, who elevated his black-haired Lorelei from subterranean boites to stardom in The Roots of Heaven, angrily denied the Foreman charge: "I have no control of any sort over her career." Greco may have given Zanuck that impression by accepting the lead in a British-German film against his advice. When he descended on her German location not long...
...framework of security that most women can only dream of-striking beauty, social position, wealth and stardom in Hollywood. Yet in 1954 Cinemactress Gene Tierney went to pieces, and to a mental institution. Last week, back in Hollywood at last, she talked freely of the pressures that broke her down and of the heartening treatment that led to recovery. See MEDICINE, Reborn Star...