Word: superman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...always leaves us alone." The hands-off sponsor is U.S. Steel, and the left-alone show is Theatre Guild on the Air (Sun. 8:30 p.m., NBC). Last week the Guild gave its 300th radio performance: a typically smooth and professional playing of Shaw's Man and Superman, starring Deborah Kerr and Maurice Evans. As executive director of the radio Guild, fiftyish Armina Marshall concentrates on "bringing the theater into U.S. homes." Unlike the Lux Radio Theater, which broadcasts dramatizations of movies, the Guild usually draws on Broadway ("The only movies we ever do are classics like All About...
...even soiling his trousers (his manner of re-ascent has never been completely explored), and that, after visiting sancta where male feet never tread, he could continue his rounds not a whit diminished in vigor, we began to think of him as indomitable, as a sort of chubby, venerable Superman...
...Love That Chimp." Producer Katzman's most successful serial is his Superman, which grossed more than $1,000,000, and was so popular in South America that the whole 31-reel cliff-hanger-5 hours 10 minutes long-was run off as a single feature. Sam pre-tests the plots and chapter endings on his 15-year-old son Jerome and playmates. "If they guess how the guy gets out of the predicament each week, it goes out immediately and we rewrite until they can't guess...
...broiled intellectual quacks (The Apes of God), ailing civilizations (Time and Western Man), and his own middle-class countrymen (Rotting Hill). Like Bernard Shaw, he outraged Britons in the '303 by following the trail of a sawdust Caesar, Adolf Hitler. But in 1937, when Shaw was busy touting Superman Stalin, Lewis became one of the first writers to bare the tyrannic fraud of Communism in a novel called The Revenge for Love. By ripping the adhesive tape of romance and pretension from the Spanish civil war, The Revenge for Love so stung drawing-room leftists that the book...
Instead, Big Bob Mitchum, the sloe-eyed superman, makes backhanded love to Susan Hayward, one of the lusty men's busty women, while hubby Arthur Kennedy proceeds to win the cowboy crown and the money...