Word: olson
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...public's sweet tooth. Walt Disney has taken Pollyanna off the back shelf and, at a cost of $3,200,000, has photographed the little horror in throbbing colors, bloated it with big names (Jane Wyman, Richard Egan, Adolphe Menjou. Karl Malden, Agnes Moorehead. Donald Crisp, Nancy Olson), and generally calculated its gasps and sniffles, homilies and heehaws with such shrewdness that Pollyanna emerges on the wide screen as the best live-actor movie Disney has ever made: a Niagara of drivel and a masterpiece of smarm...
...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 to the Method that he would have...