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...played by Teresa Wright on this week's NBC Sunday Showcase, LIFE Photographer Margaret Bourke-White, who seven years ago showed the first signs of Parkinson's disease, relived a major battle against the mysterious, crippling affliction widely considered incurable. In the care of a brilliant New York surgeon, Dr. Irving Cooper, she underwent a rare operation last January, at 54 has returned to relatively normal life and work. The TV show dramatized the moving case history that Maggie Bourke-White wrote for LIFE last spring, with some unfortunate descents to the sort of syrupy embarrassment that inevitably...
With Photographer Bourke-White's help, Actress Wright studied her sub:ect thoroughly, mastered the cramped, stilted gestures typical of Parkinsonism. The part of LIFE Photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt, whose firm support helped see his colleague through her time of trouble, was well played by Actor Eli Wallach. Although the "living color" was a little too vivid in the script as well as on the screen, the total result was effective...
...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 plunged right into Teresa Wright's head...
Billy Fisher is hardly an angry young menace, but he might be mistaken for a highly comic younger brother of Play wright John Osborne's backward-scowling Jimmy Porter. At 18 or so. he is a mortician's clerk in a scruffy little Yorkshire town, so benumbed by his surround ings that he fancies he has caught an entirely new disease, Fisher's Yawn. When his earthbound parents mulishly refuse to, understand his plans for becoming a scriptwriter in London, he retaliates in his imagination by inventing a set of properly sophisticated, London-based par ents, including...
Sunday Showcase (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). The Margaret Bourke-White Story, with Teresa Wright and Eli Wallach starring in the moving and dramatic story of the noted LIFE photographer's winning battle against Parkinson's disease...