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's-a-v CVer' headS Cast of tne from 'eft- Michae' ConstMtlnTpma7mn1 novel, 79 Park Others in cast are, Jack Weston, Nane Maria Bobbins and Sandy ZTbTrg. Cinderella on Park Avenue 'Bv Robert A. McLean Robert A. McLean Depression-era New York as "I hope this kicks the Miss Maria's lona slide to den- a hooker and Park Avenue madam, Warren must age in six hours of TV from a slightly wild 17-year old her age when she made "Cinderel-' la" to a tough 33-year old prostituteproprietess, now named Marianne Morgan for business and professional reasons. Her slide from girlish innocence to hardened harlotry almost parallels her role-casting from Cinderella to Marianne.

In between the two television specials she has played a variety of tough, sexy roles in "Mission Impossible," a clutch of TV dramatic productions, in Broadway shows, and as the sensuous, seething Galatea in the ribald "Metamorphosis," based on the Pygmalion tale. Goody-Two-Shoes image from Cinderella," she says. "I think people expect me to be a typical good girl all the time. But good girls don't always finish first, and that's what '79 Park Avenue' is about." Polly Bergen, Raymond Burr, Michael Constantine, Peter Marshall, Albert Salmi and Jack Weston head a strong supporting cast, which also features Marc Singer as the youth Marja falls for as a teenager, and David Dukes as his friend, her secret admirer and later her nemesis. Jane Maria Robbins (no relation, although a family friend of author Robbins) plays her bosom buddy from girlhood to the end.

radation begins in tonight's episode, takes her through her mother's death and reform school, to the front door of 79 Park. Monday's segment deals with Marianne's heyday as a madam, her departure from the house, and marriage to her old flame, who now is in the rackets with his father. Tuesday's finale has her back at 79 Park, as punishment by the syndicate, framed for murder and facing her youthful friend, Dukes, now the prosecutor. By Wednesday the "Cinderella" image may have gone up in smoke, leaving only the ashes and a new Lesley Ann Warren. staff Lesley Ann Warren has worked for 14 years at or at least smudging her image for millions of television viewers as the beguil-- ing, innocent Cinderella, her title role in the Rodgers and Hammerstein TV musical which vaulted her to national attention in 1963.

She may get her wish with "79 Park Avenue," the sex-and-sin NBC serialized novel, which premieres for a consecutive-night run tonight (9-11, Ch. 4), and stars the not-innocent, but still beguiling Miss Warren. Portraying Marja Fludjicki, the poor Polish-American teenager of Harold Robbins's best seller, who makes it in 12.