Word: studioful
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Studio One (Mon. 10 p.m., CBS-TV). Wreath of Roses, with Conrad Nagel...
Wabash Avenue (20th Century-Fox) brings Betty Grable back once again to what a studio publicity release hails as a "tried-and-true formula" picture. "The studio apologizes," says the handout coyly, "for putting her into a satire [That Lady in Ermine'] and asks forgiveness for that time two years ago when it showed her legs only once in eight reels-to the consternation of enraged millions...
...Studio One (Mon. 10 p.m., CBS-TV). Ben Hecht's Miracle in the Rain...
Broadcasting from Los Angeles, Groucho has a naturally fertile field for zany contestants. But, not content to take just what turns up in studio audiences, his scouts are out beating the bushes for people with strange jobs and enough gabbiness to heighten Marx's verbal asides. He is often topped, as he was when he asked an elderly woman what people were wearing when she was a baby. Her answer: "Diapers." And he was almost speechless for once when a burlesque-show employee identified a stripteaser as "an anatomy award winner...
...News recalled with leering glee that the judge had once seen a musical called Wine, Women & Song three times before testifying that a strip-tease dancer had "turned her back . . . and rotated her buttocks." Gossipist Hedda Hopper noted that he was "the guy who made trouble for practically every studio in town" two years ago as the temporary head of the industry's self-censoring production code office. Sniffed Daily Variety: COOL RECEPTION ACCORDED PEEKER AT H'D MORALS...