Kingsport Times from Kingsport, Tennessee • 30

2-D KINGSPORT TIMES Wednesday September 16 1970 Immortality Mans Dream yl '1 Ben RieSards a man whose blood contains antibodies that make him immune to all' diseases including old age 1 Ben Richards knows that he has the opportunity to create a better world for all men But others seeking immortality for the power it would give them want to exploit him There is no because if he too has immortality 'he must be warned i The Immortal will be filmed in Hollywood and on location Anthony Wilson is the executive producer of The Immortal and Richard Caffey is the producer The series is a Paramount TV production T5 1 'V- A-v Afl-j Cvr Xm Mi" Xu -y -kw y-ar? rc JL XV Jt Jr Sk'4 iSiiia k' X-v xt-'V'-k V-f So i Ixxsi if -avv- xA SHIRLEY JOISTS Her Debut In Comedy Academy Award winner Shirley Jones makes her television series acting debut as Shirley in the new ABC Television Networks musical comedy half-hour The Partridge Family The musical comedy star was bom in Smithtown Pa Her father Paul Jones (deceased) owned a brewery there' and her mother Marjorie William Jones was a housewife Shirley attended South Hurtirgton Township High School and later joined the Playhouse School of Drama in Pittsburgh She started singing when she was three and was active in church choirs an high school plays She became Miss Pittsburgh- and the runner-up for the Miss Pennsylvania in the Miss America competition and the following year was singing in Pittsburgn Civic Light Opera productions She next auditiored for 'Rodgers and Hammerstein and won a part in the chorus of South Pacific A small role in Me and Juliet followed snd she later played the lead in the national touring company- The turning point in her career was the lead in the movie version of Oklahoma! But it wasn't until several feature film roles later that she received recognition as an actress Her performance as Lulu Baines in Elmer Gantry won her an Oscar She next co-starred with Robert Preston in The Music Man Among her other films are The Courtship of Eddies Father with Glenn Ford Bedtime Story co-starring with Marlon Brando and David Niven Fluffy The Secret of My Success and April Love Miss Jopes has appeared in over 40 major telvision shows including most of TVs top drama and variety shows She was nominated for a 1969-70 Emmy for hen performance in the World Premiere film Silent Night Lonely Night She recently completed the motion picture The Happy Ending with Jean Simmons and John Forsythe Shirley met her husband actor Jack Cassidy while working in Oklahoma! They have appeared in severarproductions' together including the National Theatre Guild tour of "Wait Until Dark in 1968 5 The Cassidys have three sons Shawn Paul 11 Patrick William 8 and Ryan John 4 Jacks son by a former marriage David Cassidy co-stars as Shirleys oldest son in The Partridge Family The Cassidys make their home in Beverly Hills a short driving distance from where David lives 'V ft Xk Vf visb lx OvX A Immortality has been a dream of man throughout the ages But granted unending life would it prove to be a curse as well as a blessing? This is the question that is raised ip The Immortal a new hour-long ABC Television Network series starring Christopher George George plays race driver Sterling Returns Thrillers Rod- Serlings -Night Gallery" which is one of four -individual series Included in NBC-TVs totally new programming concept Four-In-One which features four major series in one time period will be colorcast on the NBC Network Wednesdays Bizarre tales classic and contemDorary will be presented during this six part series Each program will consist typically of two stories one long and one short featuring all-star casts linked together by host-narrator Serling Stylized portraits of the major characters will accent the bizarre plot twists Viewers can look forward to unforgettable nortraits of strange and haunting peoDle to dramatic encounters which run the gamut of hurtan eruptions: love hate jealousy pity-' and tenderness Rich colorfiil Maugham-like plots with sharp surprising Henry-like endines are part of the Serling tradition Serling will write most of the stories Already' lined ud for Night -Gallerv are TV rights to The House by noted late French author Andre Maurois Algernon) Blackwoods ghost story The Doll and Cvrii 'M Kombluths The Little Black Bag All three pronerties will be adapted for TV by host Rod Serling who has completed five originals for the new series as well Ray Bradbury the master science fiction writer (over 1000 stories including the recently filmed Illustrated Man and Farepheit 451) has been signed to write three originals for Rod Serlings Night Gallery A escape because not everyone can share in his secret Because hia Kfe is not his own Ben Richards is constantly on the run trusting no one Knowledge of the promise his remarkable blood holds turns friend against friend brother against brother Ben also is searching for his own brother whom he has not seen since birth II4PUUUJIJ UiUiiXI -x -Vk-k he returns with the Gallery Shirley Shirley Jones stars- as Shirley -Partridge the mother of a very groovy singing clan who accidentally became one of the top rock groups in the country on The Partridge Family premiering on- the ABC Television Network and aired on Fridays pm EDT) Former Miss Memphis Stars Again Jones winnings were the years she spent in experimental theatre groups such as the Front Street Repertory Theatre Deciding to try California as the starting point for her professional career Barbara worked with the Los Angeles Art Theatre of which she is still a member Barbaras performance as Cyreene in a Los Angeles production of The Rattle of a Simple Man drew' the attention of a major talent agent who launched her television career Blonde blue-eyed Barbara who is five-feet five-inches tall and weighs 112 pounds is single and lives in Hollywood California While still- in her' teens Barba Anderson was voted Miss Memphis and missed by a half-vote being selected as Miss Tennessee for the Mss America contest ifT her- first season as Officer Eve Whitfield on Ironside colorcast Thursdays Barbara won -an Emmy for Best Supporting Actress Supposedly a sophisticated San Francisco socialite who joined the Police Force to give her life stimulation Officer Whitfield is a valuable Land attractive asset to Chief Ironside a wheelchair-bound" detective In real-life actress Barbara Anderson ifequally devoted to her teacher and mentor Raymond Burr who is a hard taskmaster for all the young' members of the Ironside cast 1 Brooklyn-born Barbara was STERLING RETURNS Rod Sterling will again bring out the chill-' ing and su3penseful this fall when Vince Edwards The Versatile Entertainer prasaERiGA giantTsgreeioTTqr i iv 5 il Vk" i I 'V' X4" i j-x i A Ax y'h fk S' -yA Ax- to the air on NBC-TV Rod Sterlings NTght He made his Broadway debut in High Button Shoes and toured with the road company in Come Back Little Sheba Moving to television he appeared in some 50 live shows in New York including virtually all the major anthology series In- Hollywood he guest- -starred on TV in such series as The Untouchables General Electric Theater The Alfred Hitchcock Show and The Deputy His recent motion picture credits include The Victors" Devils Brigade and The" Hammerhead with Judy Geeson a Columbia production filmed in London and Portugal The actor has his own production and recording companies and has made four best-selling albums He also has performed as a nightclub headliner in Las Vegas and Los Angeles Edwards directed some Ben Casey episodes and plans to continue in this field He is also involved in writing for television Among his avocational pursuits is photography at which he excels APPLIANCES PHONE 247-31 89 New 1971 advanced the child of a Navy enlisted paan and his- wife Her childhood spent chiefly in Texas and Tennessee was far from luxurious and she associates the time between dropping out of Memphis State University to pursue her career and her signing by Universal Studios more with peanut butter sandwiches than with caviar More 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