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...Defenders (CBS, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). "A Book for Burning" concerns a self-appointed censor and a novel he considers pornographic. Cast includes Walter Abel, Sam Wanamaker and Georgann Johnson...
...only three times, and is thinking of giving it to a deserving friend. Still, if she is ever dissatisfied with her own image, she can look at the Broadway play, Critic's Choice, which is frankly, if superficially, based on Mr. and Mrs. Kerr; there she is portrayed by Georgann Johnson, who is much slimmer than she (though Jean is easily the better actress). and her husband is impersonated by Henry Fonda, who is slightly more handsome than Walter Kerr (though Walter is easily the better critic). In the movie version of Please Don't Eat the Daisies, of course...
Still, the picture has its moments, and the plot is still fresh and Greene enough. The two young leading players (Robert Ivers and Georgann Johnson) are less than sensational, but they show enough talent and training to make the early Ladd and Lake look comparatively sad. And Director James Cagney, in his first appearance behind the camera, manages to beauty-spot a few of the bare places with some characteristic Cagney touches...
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