Word: stevenses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite the big money they earn the shows are filmed on a tight budget: around ?40,000 and three days for each half-hour. With rare exceptions, the all-important night scenes are faked on the back lots of Hollywood; to save overtime wages, these are shot in daylight with...
Stevens confidently expects to turn a profit on Property. "There's been a firm connection between writing and money in my head," says he, "ever since I was ten and my father* paid me a penny a line for learning Shakespeare."
Realized Abilities. Today, Stevens' Daystar Productions-which he shares with a shrewd former talent agent named Stanley Colbert-has a contract to make three movies for 20th Century-Fox. (For each of these movies, besides Daystar's cut of the profits, Stevens can get $50,000 as writer...
* The late Vice Admiral Leslie C. Stevens, onetime U.S. naval attaché in Moscow and author of the bestselling Russian Assignment.
Sullivan's Travels: Invitation to Mos cow (CBS, 7:30-9 p.m.). Produced in Moscow by Ed Sullivan, this slice of the State Department's cultural exchange program includes Singer Risë Stevens, Accordionist Dick Contino, Dancers Marge and Gower Champion, and, of course, Smiley himself. The Russians...