Word: oberon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...German industry. Songbird Patti Page will be involved in "a new TV concept" called The Big Record, a guest-laden paean to the recording industry. CBS will ride the range with Have Gun, Will Travel, bring over England's top-seeded commercial show, Assignment Foreign Legion, with Merle Oberon, and cast Eve Arden in a series based on Emily Kimbrough's autobiography, It Gives Me Great Pleasure. TV's most ambitious drama mill, Playhouse 90, reopens this month with Jack Palance and Fashion Model Suzy Parker in Barnaby Conrad's Death of Manolete, followed...
...London. Hungarian-born Korda made his first films in a shed on the outskirts of Budapest after World War I, in 1931 put the British film industry on the map with his The Private Life of Henry VIII, with a cast of unknown performers (Charles Laughton, Robert Donat, Merle Oberon). He married Actress Oberon, lost a fortune, then bounded back with London Film Productions, Ltd., was knighted...
20th Century-Fox Hour (Wed. 10 p.m. CBS). Noel Coward's Cavalcade, with Michael Wilding. Merle Oberon...
...King and I. Performance: a knockout. Von Weber: Four-Hand Piano Pieces (Arthur Gold, Robert Fizdale; Columbia). A gifted romantic at his most melodious. Weber puts as much sweet pathos and lilting grace into these little charmers as he does into his more famed operas (Der Freischutz, Oberon, Euryanthe). Other notable new releases: Brahms's German Requiem (soloists, Frankfurt Opera Chorus and Orchestra and Museum Orchestra conducted by Georg Sold; Capitol, 2 LPs); Giuseppe Torelli's Twelve Concert!, Op. 8 (Stuttgart Pro Musica String Orchestra conducted by Rolf Reinhardt; Vox, 3 LPs). Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto...
...Wisconsin v. Rice. Spectacular (Sun. 7:30 p.m., NBC). With Judy Holliday, Steve Allen, Dick Shawn. The Bob Hope Show (Tues. 8 p.m., NBC). With Rosemary Clooney. The Best of Broadway (Wed. 10 p.m., CBS). The Man Who Came to Dinner with Monty Woolley, Merle Oberon, Bert Lahr, Buster Keaton, Joan Bennett, Zasu Pitts, Reginald Gardiner...