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Ford Theater (Fri. 9 p.m., CBS). Margaret Sullavan in The Touchstone...
Married. Margaret Sullavan, 41, husky-voiced star of stage (The Voice of the Turtle) and screen (No Sad Songs for Me); and Kenneth Arthur Wagg, 41, London businessman (malted milk); she for the fourth time (previous husbands: Actor Henry Fonda, Director William Wyler, Producer-Agent Leland Hayward), he for the second; on Long Island...
When Margaret Sullavan wrests the unsuspected diagnosis from her doctor, she persuades him not to let it get any farther. She tells neither her child (Natalie Wood) nor her husband (Wendell Corey), though his work on a pressing engineering project will keep them apart most of the time for months. Instead, she decides to proceed on the conviction that life, if short, can be beautiful...
...Songs treats this sudsy claptrap with considerable skill and restraint. It gives the least possible offense to squeamish moviegoers; as far as appearances go, the heroine might be suffering from nothing more serious than migraine. Admirers of Actress Sullavan's mannered, laryngitic style will see and hear plenty of her, though unmannered Actor Corey gives much the best performance in the picture. If the film does nothing else, it will probably drive many a woman to her doctor for a complete checkup...
Divorced. By Margaret Sullavan, 38, husky-voiced stage (Voice of the Turtle) and screen (Cry Havoc) star: third husband* Leland Hayward, 46, air-minded, airline-owning (Southwest Airways) Broadway producer and actors' agent; after nearly twelve years of marriage, three children; in Los Angeles...