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...three largest producers of network television programming in the industry," says Powell. "I won't be satisfied until we're the biggest-and we will be." Starting out with the old Four Star Playhouse and later booming with the five-year run of Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater, the company has been all over TV, with as many as 13 series running at one time...
After years of yearning to shoot straight in a horse opera, Singer-Actor Sammy Davis Jr. got his wish, was exuberant after filming an all-Negro oater for CBS-TV's Zane Grey Theater. Wispy (5 ft. 6 in., 125 Ibs.) Sammy had been pessimistic about the prospects of ever persuading a producer to dramatize any epic pitting dark skins against red skins: "They'll never do it! But if they do, it'll be the first time they let the Indians win!" In the current saga, Davis plays a corporal in a cavalry unit assigned...
Shortly before his death in 1939, Zane Grey wrote to Harper & Bros., his publishers, to say that he had three manuscripts ready for publication. Harper is still publishing them-at the rate of one a year. By the time half a dozen posthumous novels of the early West had appeared, intramural smiles flickered through the book business. How long could Harper keep Grey alive? The explanation, say Harper editors, is really quite simple. Their man was so prolific-writing longhand on a lap board at the rate of 100,000 words a month-that no publisher could have hoped...
Buttermilk Sky. Horse Heaven Hill, "the new 1959 Zane Grey novel," will bring instant recognition from the fans of such vintage Grey as Wild Horse Mesa and Riders of the Purple Sage. The prose clomps along on two-by-four stilts ("There was completed in his mind a resolve to go down into Idaho, when opportunity afforded"), and the dialogue echoes a tin-plated ear ("If you think I'm wonderful and if I think you're wonderful-it's all really very wonderful, isn't it?"). Instead of speaking their lines, characters "vouchsafe" them; they...
...Zane Grey published 44 novels while he lived. Horse Heaven Hill is No. 63, and graves the same message as all the rest on the writer's literary headstone: Here lies Zane Grey, a romantic dentist from Zanesville, Ohio, who went West as a young man. There he became a master at extracting the purple from the sage...