Word: hometown
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Something Impersonal. Off the air, she switches from sexy voice to hard-working businesswoman, records 285 programs a week-a different one for each city. To get the proper "hometown atmosphere" she corresponds with chambers of commerce across the nation, getting the names of local streets, parks and people. This week Jean was laboring her usual twelve hours a day in her new $5,000 studio. Built inside her home, it is equipped with a microphone sensitive enough to pick up each wisp of her breath and every sugary nuance of her voice...
Happily, the film is dominated by the bumbling of "Father" Robinson, orthodox resident of an English version Andy Hardy hometown. He writes traveller's postcards, variants on the mundane, before he leaves on vacation; at the last minute he exchanges a Mediterranean cruise for the perennial seaside fortnight, and on his return relates Mediterranean tales from a guidebook. The situational humor--when a dog tramples his pampered begonias and a prospective son-in-law breaks his clock--is unfortunately more exercise and less amusing than Robinson's commentaries on his vacation, his newspaper, and his wife...
...plenty of work cut out for himself. Later this month he will sail for Italy to catch up on his share of hometown fame. He will make a movie of The Medium, later supervise productions of The Consul in London and Paris, as well as at La Scala. In his dedication to opera, he regrets that he has not had greater chance for orchestral composition. He has written a piano concerto and a ballet suite, Sebastian, is currently working on a violin concerto...
Philco TV Playhouse (Sun. 9 p.m., NBC-TV). Hometown, with Faye Emerson and Barry Nelson...