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...difference between TV and movies lies in the audience's frame of mind," says Alsace-born William Wyler, 54, whose skilled directorial hand has made him one of Hollywood's top moviemakers. "With TV, you have all the disturbing elements of the home...
Producer-Director Wyler had good reason to draw a comparison. Rummaging through his musty attic of past hits (Mrs. Miniver, The Best Years of Our Lives, Roman Holiday), he came across Somerset Maugham's durable old (1927) melodrama, The Letter, and last week dusted it off for the 21-inch screen. It was Wyler's first stab at TV, and the result was a slick, highly polished teledrama about a bored wife who riddles her lover with bullets and gets away with...
Producer's Showcase (Mon. 8 p.m., NBC). Somerset Maugham's The Letter, with Siobhan McKenna, John Mills. Directed by William Wyler...
...shows called Washington Square, alternating with the Chevy Show's Dinah Shore and Bob Hope. Nanette Fabray, who left Sid Caesar for greener folding money, will star in High Button Shoes. Producer's Showcase will offer Somerset Maugham's The Letter (produced and directed by William Wyler), a musical version of Jack and the Beanstalk with Celeste Holm and Cyril Ritchard. John Huston's Lysistrata, Anatole Litvak's Mayerling with Audrey Hepburn and Mel Ferrer, Claire Bloom in the Old Vic's Romeo and Juliet, the Lunts, making their TV debuts, in The Great...
...Desperate Hours. Hell, in the persons of an infernal trinity of criminals, breaks loose in a suburban home, and Director William Wyler enthusiastically fans the flames, with the help of Fredric March and Humphrey Bogart (TIME...