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...script was suggested by Patient Bourke-White's own surgeon, who demonstrated that even a dear and glorious physician may behave curiously under TV's hypnotic eye. For the use of his name, Dr. Cooper wanted the right of script approval. (Executive Producer Robert Alan Aurthur changed the doctor's name to "Olson," avoided the issue.) Also the doctor's representatives suggested that his part be expanded, and that Marlon Brando ought to play it. Producer-Director Alex March, who gave the job to an actor named Martin Rudy, observed that "Brando is so devoted...
Comedians traditionally harbor an urge to play Hamlet; in television, a newer tradition has it, they play him offscreen all the time. In Robert Alan Aurthur's Tale. of the Comet, Studio One offered a case history of the TV comic as a tragic hero-a lonely figure tortured by self-defeating uncertainty amid the debris of his fallen ratings. Tim Tully is a onetime top banana who trampled 19 writers in three seasons in his frenzy to stop slipping. As the play opens, he is on the eve of an attempted comeback that seems doomed by his panicky...
Edge of the City (Jonathan; MGM) is a movie with a message: a man is ten feet tall. That, in fact, is the title of the Robert Alan Aurthur TV play from which Author Aurthur adapted the movie. The unusual thing about the film is that the message is delivered by a Negro (Sidney Poitier) to a white man (John Cassavetes). Surprisingly enough in a Hollywood movie, the Negro is not only the white man's boss, but becomes his best friend, and is at all times his superior, possessing greater intelligence, courage, understanding, warmth and general adaptability...
...Very Special Baby (by Robert Alan Aurthur) refers to a 34-year-old man-the youngest child (whose mother died when he was born) in a large Italian-American family. At once babied and belittled by a rich, tyrannical, self-made father who resents him because of his mother's death, he has never found his feet. When at last there seems a chance he will, the father blocks the way, and there are agitated scenes before the son presumably escapes...
Most Original Teleplay: Robert Alan Aurthur's A Man Is Ten Feet Tall...