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Page 13-Sc. ll-Augyst 5, 1962 MUSKOGEE SUNDAY PHOENIX TIMES-DEMOCKAT Phoenix And Times-Democrat entertainment page Melvyn Douglas Hollywood After Is Back In Long Absence A.VN-MARGARET IN BIRDIE HOLLWYOOD XTD Ana -Margaret has started work on the first film under a tew multiple picture contract with Columbia. She is appearing in the Fred Kohlmar George Sidney screen version of Bye Bye Birdie. MUSIC FOR STOOGES HOLLYWOOD (UPD A musical score will be composed and conducted by Paul Dunlap for the Columbia picture The Three Stooges in Orbit. Carol Christensen and Edson Stroll co-star with the Three Stooges, Elvis Presley Movie Slated Three-Days At Ritz This Week Elvis Fresley fans will be flocking to the Ritz Theater Thursday, Friday and Saturday to take In the picture.

Kid Gala-had." which co-stars Gig Your, and Lola Albright. Elvis has plenty of opportunity to sing in this color film as he swings out on King Of The Whole Wide World, This Is Living, Riding The Rainbow, Home Is Where The Heart Is, I Got Lucky and A Whistling Tune. WXitiz'-StL THEATRE! way and video shows, Douglas and his wife, former U. 8. congresswoman Helen Gahagan Douglas, have resided in New York.

Before wunding up his winners role at Paramount Studios, Melvyn took time out to discuss his movie career, describing many of his picture roles as what has become known as suave, comedy parts. A lot of those comedies were fun, but when you do the same thing over and over again, it gets tiresome. The last nine or ten years in television and plays have been rewarding to me. I've done some exciting parts and we had time to work on them. A serious illness was responsible for part of Douglas absence from movies.

He suffered from ulcers and was taken 111 while trav MiCHwur 64 iouth TONIGHT MONDAY TUESDAY TWO GREAT HITS IN COLOR M-G-NTs POWERFUL DRAMA! Doris Day James Cagney a nvrm mw tm Love Me Or Leave Me CinemaScoP 7r THE CREAT STAGE MUSICAL EVEN GREATER ON THE SCREEN! elling with a play. The illness required surgery and long recuperation. Has Stomach Removed I had an operation and two thirds of my stomach was cut out, he said. I spent about three or four months doing nothing, then went to Europe to finish recuperating." Douglas' role in The Winners Is that of a rancher he describes as being from a past generation. Wearing his hair long and grey, with a mustache to match.

Douglas doesnt appear as the suave character remembered movie fans. With his role completed, Douglas returns to New York for a television show and conferences regarding a season of reportory theater. A BETTY HUTTON HOWARD KEEL adults ADULTS ONLY Shows Today Afternoon 1-3, Niqht 7-9 "1 AUDREY SHIRLEY HEPBURN MaclAIHE GARNER THE Triumphant Broadway hit, "The Music Man" continues its run at the Ritz Theater this week for four days, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Robert Preston stars in the picture as Professor Harold Hill. Others in the film are Shirley Jones, Buddy Hackett, Hermione Gingold, Paul Ford and The Buffalo Bills.

Henry Fonda Not Looking For Play Now HOLLYWOOD (UPD Ilenry Fonda, a longtime commuter between Broadway stage roles and Hollywood movies, will not appear on the legitimate stage this Fall for the first time In several years. I'm not looking for a play this season, said Fonda during a rehearsal break from Spencer's Mountain, the movie in which he stars for Warner Brothers. Ive done three plays In the last three years, he explained. And Ive only been away from the theater for one year In the last 14. Fondas preference for a stage appearance each season has always overshadowed his desire to appear in pictures.

Trefers Theater I prefer the thsater, he said. New York is home. But I dont mean that to be critical of this medium. Theres more personal satisfaction for me on the stage." Some actors prefer stage plays because of theater audiences which they claim stimulates a performance. Fonda places less importance on audience and more emphasis on technique.

Its not the audience, he said. "In a play you rehearse and then play It from beginning to end. in a movie it's bits and pieces. Good scripts are also high on Henrys list of considerations before taking a role. Recognises Good Script When you read a script you either get excited about it or not and find something you can contribute," he said.

I think youre awfully lucky to find scripts you want to do in whatever medium you want to work. Fonda, who says he's not a compulsive worker, has another movie tentatively scheduled this year, then hopes for a fishing holiday with his son, Peter. Peter is also in Hollywood. The young man is playing his first motion picture role after having made a stage debut. Another of Henrys offspring, daughter Jane, has starred In pictures and plays.

NANETTE IN WHITE HOUSE NEW YORK (UPD Actress Nanette Fabrays suite at the Stanhope Hotel has been named the White House because Miss Fa-bray will play the role of the First Lady in Irving Berlins forthcoming musical, Mr. "THE CHILDREN HOUR," a United Artist release will begin a five-day run Sunday at the Roxy Theater and will continue through Thursday. In the "adult entertainment" film, 2-year-old Karen Balkin's lies ruin the lives of two young women. In this scene Fay Bainer chooses to believe her granddaughter's "stories" about Shirley MacLaine and Audrey Hepburn. William Wyler produced and directed the movie.

The movie, "Tarzan Goes To India," wil be shown at the Roxy Friday, Saturday and Sunday. By Joseph Finnigan UPI Hollywood Correspondent HOLLYWOOD (LTD Melvyn Douglas is back making a Holly- Wood picture after being away for years working in plays and television shows. Before and after World War II, Douglas was among filmland's biggest stars, appearing oppisite Greta Garbo, Myrna Loy, Rosalind Russell, Joan Crawford, Irene Dunne and others. During the past ten years, Douglas has been absent from movie screens. Last year, Melvyn returned, working in Billy Budd, a European production still to be released, and The Winners which he recently completed here with Paul Newman.

Resides In New' York Since leaving here for Broad- Hollywood Shorts By James Bacon AP Movie-TV Writer HOLLYWOOD UP) A scene inspired by Marilyn Monroes famed nude bathing sequence in her scrapped movie will be In an upcoming show. Actress Jo Morrow, a strikingly beautiful redhead, donned a blonde wig and little else to do a takeoff on Monroe for television's 77 Sunset Strip. Miss Morrow, 21, plays a movie star in the segment and theres little doubt that its Marilyn with maybe a little Jayne Mansfield tossed in. Key scene is one in which she Is interviewed by reporters while reposing au naturel in a sunken pool. For Jo, the role Is a major break for a girl who was the victim of one of the crudest vendettas yet.

In 1959 Jo got court approval of a Columbia Pictures contract with unique calorie clause. A statuesque redhead standing five feet eight and measuring 36-23-26, her contract required that her weight not exceed 132 pounds else the contract could be voided. The calorie clause, of course, was the work of press agents, not lawyers, but it was legal. Jo had no trouble making the weight. Then In a routine career move she dropped her agent and got another.

That move was followed later by getting out of her Columbia contract, also a routine career deal. The studio said weight had nothing to do with it. But the disgruntled agent called a trade paper and said Jo got bounced because she was too fat. The item was printed. rhotogrphers immediately shot cheesecake photos of her proving the agents charge false.

But she didnt get work for a year. This is a malicious town, 6ays Jo. Someone who doesnt like you can drop a line casually to the effect that Shes a good actress and a beautiful girl, but shes got a weight problem. You cant imagine how much this can hurt. The phones Just stop ringing.

IIOLLYWOD IT) Actress Sandra Dee is back scrubbing floors again at Universal-International. The blonde actress, one of the top 10 at the boxoffice, is in Tammy and the Doctor. She had just finished 'If a Man Answers with her husband, Bobby Darin, in which she played a sexpot dressed in gorgeous clothes. I thought I had really grown up on the screen at last, she says, but ths Tammy pictures are too successful to quit, so now Im working in a hospital scrubbing the floors, changing the sheets and the whole ja2z while romancing Peter Fonda who plays a doctor. murl troxel, editor Mimsy Farmer Has Come A Long Way HOLLYWOOD TPD Starlet Mimsy Farmer is appearing in her first picture role, having come a long way since she carried rabbits for an itinerant clown.

Mimsy, a 17-year-old Hollywood high school student, was cast by Warner Brothers in Spencers Mountain" with Henry Fonda. She plays a citified girl who chases a country boy played by James MacArthur. One look at Mimsy, and Mao-Arthur shouldn't be expected to run very fast. Miss Farmers previous show business experience consisted of small parts In television and an extras bit in The Absent Minded Professor where audiences got a fleeting glance of her back. After that, she had no place to go but up in movies.

Mimsys performances before Spencers Mountain are miniscule when compared to her career as a caretaker for rabbits. Miss Farmer is known as a deft handler of bunnies for a magician who entertained at kiddie birthday parties. Only one black mark appears on her record. In a moment of nervousness, she once dropped a rabbit on its head. Like many newcomers to pic-luitr.

Mimsy was asked to change her first name. The director wanted me to change my name because he said it will be too young when Im older, she explained. But I don't want to and a lot of people have backed me up. Miss Farmer's real first name is, Merle, after an uncle. However, nobody calls her Merle except formal school teachers.

business when she travels. Its very easy to do because Im mostly alienated even when T'm In it, she explains. I go to parties and people want me to sing. I Just wont sing unless Im on stage. I never read the movie columns, or gossip columns of any kind.

I do read the notices for the Broadway openings. Theres too much happening of real importance in the world to bother with trivia. She attributes her attitude about show business to the fact that she grew up in it. Sandra was born in San Francisco but moved to Los Angeles as a child after her fathers death. Her mother, who had always wanted to be an actress, enroled her daughter In drama, school when Sandra was only five.

I took singing and dancing lessons, too. I've been at show business ever since. And you know something? The only training I ever liked was in classical singing something that I have yet to do professionally. Sandra, in her early 20s, Is a slender, curvy elfin, five-feet-three. She sews, cooks and is a good enough artist to have one of her schoolgirl entries taken on national tour with the National Scholastic Art Competiion.

She is unmarried and at 99 pounds looks more like a high school graduate of 1962 than the whammo stripper of Gypsy. Plan Now GREATEST BECOMES POWERFUL, ADULT SCREEN DRAMA! Star More Interested In Class Than Movies PHONE 2-3881 STARTING TIME DUSK JAMES co starring If Cl GHDLOIRIESS) U-OOUIRI Boctuoo of tho odutt noturo of its thomo ttuo motion picturo at not rocommondod tor childroip A MIRIAM HOPKINS FAY BAINTER VNnVoinriSTS' and introducing KAREN BALKIN POSITIVELY NO CHILDREN TICKETS SOLD TO THIS MOVII Adult 90c Afternoon, $1.35 Night Children 50c Discount Cords 75f PHONE 7-4140 OPEN 1:00 7:00 Today Monday Tuesday Wednesday Two Shows Doily 1:30 and 7:45 AND NOW ON THE MOTION PICTURE SCREEN! C.the story of that man' (' and his 76 trombones qj and the wonderful, wonderful tune he played on every heart in town 4 Leading U.S. Actors Added To Cast For Movie HOLLYWOOD (UPD Four leading American actors have been added to the international cast of Carl Foremans The Victors, for which principal photography Is set for August. George Peppard, George Hamilton, Eli Wallach and Michael Callan join Vince Edwards of Ben Casey fame in the all-star cast. The Victors is based on the book, The Human Kind by Alexander Baron and will be shot in England, France, Italy and Sweden.

Elizabeth Taylor Still Leading As Favorite In Movieland Wax Museum HOLLYWOOD (UPD The wax-work fans at home still love Elizabeth Taylor despite the actress' much headlined romantic problems. Miss Taylor is leading the overall balloting by a comfortable 3-1 margin in votes cast by visitors at the new Movieland Wax Museum who name their favorite star whose figure they want added to the museum. El Cid Movie Receives Citation From Spain HOLLYWOOD (UPD The motion picture El Cid has received a National Interest Citation from the Spanish Ministry of Information and Tourism. It is the third motion picture ever to be so honored. The screenplay tells the saga of the 11th Century hero who unified Spain in its struggle against African invasion.

DEBUT HOLLYWOOD (UPD Maureen Stapleton, whose Broadway roles include performances in The Rose Tattoo and "Orpheus De- Scending, makes her musical 1 comedy debut in the movie ver- sion of Bye Bye Birdie. I I CAREFUL CASTING I HOLLYWOOD (UPD Broadway producer-director Joshua Logan has signed with Seven Arts Production to produce and direct The Careful Man, based on an original story by Max Franklin. The story, a suspense thriller, tells of a husband-wife confidence team, Audrey Hepburn and Oary Grant are being sought to play the couple. FIRST FOR FESS NEW YORK (UPD Fess Park- i er will have an unusual first when his Mr. Smith Goes to Washington television show opens on ABC-TV this Fall.

The series marks the first time Parker will be seen on the home screens i wearing a business suit, complete with white shirt and tie. i wear FALSE TEETH? eai, chew, smile with Helpi keep seeds out plat mug Help ease pressure on gum Help prevent clicking IT YOUI ORUG STORE MONTH SUPPLY 60 To Attend The 31st Annual By James Bacon AP Movle-TV Writer HOLLYWOOD UP) Actress Sandra Church, one of this years more glamorous high school graduates, isnt through with education yet. I expect to enrol at Columbia University in the Fall, says she, after finishing a year of high school work in three months. Lots of bright students have done that but none while playing Marlon Brandos wife in a movie. A few years ago Sandra was a Junior at Maculate Heart High School in Hollywood.

A friend sent her photo to the Theatre Guild which was looking for a replacement for Janice Rule in the Broadway company of Picnic. She got the role and didnt return to Hollywood until she was called to play Brandos wife in The Ugly American. In the meantime, she scored on Broadway as the young Gypsy Rose Lee in Gypsy. I love New York. But like most child actresses Ive been in the business since I was five I resented havirg my education interrupted, even for stardom, Sandra syas.

It really bothered me. So I went to the Immaculate Heart and arranged to study nights and week-ends so I could get my diploma. It was hard work but I enjoyed every minute of it. I expect to be In New York this Fall, so I plan to take courses at Columbia. It may take some years but I eventually hope to get a degree.

I give mycelf projects to complete and I always do, she adds. After Gypsy, her project was a three-month trip to the Orient. Sandra says her next project Is Europe. She alienates herself from show SUNSET DRIVE-IN THEATRE Emt On ft. Gibson Highway Ph.

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The story, based on a novel by Frank ORourke, has a baseball background. It will be televised in the Fall on ABC-TV network. FILIPINO OSCAR HOLLYWOOD (UPD Pancho Magalona, who plays a soldier in Jeff Chandler's guerrilla unit in Merrills Marauders. has won the Philippines equivalent of an Oscar for his acting. STORY BUY HOLLYWOOD (UPD The Baby Sitter, a comedy based on an original story by Arne Sultan and Marvin Worth, has been purchased by Columbia Pictures.

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