Word: wynn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...already heavy schedule of drama came a promising addition: CBS's Playhouse 90, the first hour-and-a-half drama factory in TV history. For eight months Playhouse Producer Martin (Climax!) Manulis has skirted the globe to corral top properties; he signed Keenan Wynn in Tokyo, Phyllis Kirk in London, Louis Jourdan in Paris. Of his upcoming teleplays-31 live and eight on film-most are being penned by big-time talents, e.g., H. Allen Smith, Gore Vidal. Each will cost some $100,000 to produce. Currently, four Playhouse directors are alternating assignments so that at least three complete...
...hard to adjust. He is a tough, disfigured blob of flesh who "could take a cannon ball in the face"; but he is also a gentle man, painfully aware of his ugliness. He is bounced around by some seedy managers and hangers-on ("Why is it," asks Trainer Ed Wynn, playing his first straight part on TV, "so many people have to feed off one guy's misery?") until a pretty employment agent (Kim Hunter) helps him find himself. As the inarticulate punch-drunk. Actor Palance stammered his way through a powerful, sensitive performance...
ARTHUR E. WYNN Forest Hills...
...Those were mighty fine pictures of Ed Wynn, "The Perfect Fool," in your News in Pictures. C. W. CARROLL Rochester...
...comparison of Comedian Wynn and Campaigner Kefauver, see cuts...