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Funny Face (Paramount) is one of those big Technicolor musicals that stagger toward the culminating nuptials like a determined but overequipped bride. The burden includes something old: Fred Astaire, now 56 and at last beginning to show it. Something new: Audrey Hepburn in her first musical. Something borrowed: six songs by George Gershwin, four of them from the 1927 musical of the same name. And something blue: the audience...
...classmates, even from his landlady while he was a student at Cambridge University and a poker-playing Army buddy, now an advertising man in Huntington, W. Va. While Contributing Editor James Atwater tracked down other sources in suburban Connecticut, on the Columbia campus and in Greenwich Village, Researcher Audrey Blodgett and Associate Editor Lester Bernstein, who wrote the cover story, quizzed Van Doren himself. During the interview, Bernstein and Van Doren quickly discovered that they had one thing in common: both are former TIME correspondents in England, the former as a staffer in the London bureau and the latter...
...scarcely surprising that the actors failed to do much with their inept material. Audrey Hepburn looked lovely as usual, but her talents as an actress were confined to delivering an occasional shy smile. And Mel Ferrer once more exhibited his really astonishing capacity for looking bored. The one man who might have rescued the show from tedium, Raymond Massey, was not allowed to do anything but sneer in his role as Prime Minister. To be sure, they all appeared quite handsome in their fine uniforms, which were broadcast in color, but it is still very tempting to suggest that they...
...most expensive, most publicised dramatic show in the history of television. The advertisements and a cover story in Life magazine loudly proclaimed that sponsor RCA and producer Anatole Litvak had spent half a million dollars to restage Litvak's screen success of twenty years ago, and that Audrey Hepburn and her husband, Mel Ferrer, had been hired to perform in it. After it was all over, however, the ad men would have had a difficult time convincing anybody that Mayerling was anything but a monumental bore...
Producer's Showcase (Mon. 8 p.m., NBC). Anatole Litvak's $500,000 Mayer- ling, starring Audrey Hepburn and Mel Ferrer as the star-crossed lovers (color...