The New Interns (Columbia Pictures) (1964)

MICHAEL CALLAN Handsome Michael Callan is a girl-chasing intern who makes hospital history in the course of “The NEW Interns,” the Robert Cohn production for Columbia Pictures release at the Theatre. The girls Callan chases are, of course, nurses and his brash pursuit includes an invasion of their quarters. Barbara Eden plays the student nurse who cuts Callan down to size. Girl-chasing has become something of a Callan specialty, movie-wise. In his earlier Columbia pictures, Carl Foreman’s “The Victors,” he played a G.I. who made quite a lucrative business out of it. Callan’s success in “They Came to Cordura” quickly earned him a series of important roles, in such films as “Pepe,” “Mysterious Island,” “Gidget Goes Hawaiian,” “13 West Street,” “Bon Voyage,” “The Interns,” “The Victors” and “The NEW Interns.” “The NEW Interns” also stars Dean Jones, Telly Savalas, Barbara Eden, Stefanie Powers, Kay Stevens, Inger Stevens as Nancy, and newcomer George Segal. John Rich directed the Robert Cohn production from the screenplay by Wilton Schiller, based upon characters from Richard Frede’s novel, “The Interns.” DEAN JONES Dean Jones continues his rapid rise to top stardom with the most important role of his career in Robert Cohn’s production of “The NEW Interns,” a Columbia Pictures release now at the Theatre. The powerful story probes the intimate day-today passions, loves and decisions facing interns and nurses at the start of their careers. Better known for his comedy portrayals, Jones plays a rare dramatic role in the film as a young obstetrician, newly-wed to lovely nurse Stefanie Powers, who learns he is unable to father the children they both desire. The handsome actor went into “The NEW Interns” fresh from “Under the Yum Yum Tree,” his first Hollywood screen assignment in many months; the intervening time was spent by Jones as TV’s “Ensign O’Toole.” Knott’s Berry Farm, a Southern California tourist mesa celebrated for fried chicken and home made pies, is a bit off the eeceeececse beaten path for talent scouts, but Dean was spotted there while appearing in a melodrama, “The Streets of New York.” Following a screen test, Dean was signed as a singer and, typical of Hollywood, during all the time he was under a studio contract, Dean never sang a note. “My first screen assignment was kissing Leslie Caron,” Dean says. “Then one day they handed me a script and said, ‘You’re going to play this scene tomorrow with James Cagney,’ I thought they’d flipped, but Cagney nursed me through the scene and from that time on the acting parts began to grow.” Also starred in “The NEW Interns,” are Michael Callan, Telly Savalas, Barbara Eden, Miss Powers, Kay Stevens, Inger Stevens as Nancy and newcomer George Segal. Wilton Schiller wrote the screenplay, based upon characters from the best-selling novel “The Interns” by Richard Frede. John Rich directed. BARBARA EDEN Pert and vivacious Barbara Eden, as a student nurse who tames a wolfish intern, is among the stars of “The NEW Interns,” exciting new Columbia Pictures release at the ........ Theatre. Others in the Robert Cohn production are Michael Callan, Dean Jones, Telly Savalas, Stefanie Powers, Kay Stevens, Inger Stevens as Nancy and newcomer George Segal. Miss Eden started in show business as a chorine, at Ciro’s the famous Hollywood night club. The job last five months, or long enough for the blonde beauty to acquire an agent. Barbara’s first acting appearances were in such television shows as “West Point,” “Highway Fatrol” and the Johnny Carson Show. In the series, “How to Marry a Millionaire,” Barbara played Loco, the role created by Marilyn Monroe for the film version. Her bow in films came with small roles in “Back From Eternity” and “Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter.” Since, Barbara has appeared as the feminine star of a dozen other pictures, among them the Cinerama production, “The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm.” Wilton Schiller penned the screenplay for “The NEW Interns,” based upon characters from the best-selling novel “The Interns,” by Richard Frede. John Rich directed the Robert Cohn production. Half-column heads of these stars from "The NEW Interns" are also available . . . on a single mat! Order Mat 2-X from your National Screen Service exchange. Page 8 Mat 2-A Michael Callan, one of "The NEW Interns" at the Still No. R836 Theatre, becomes an emergency room patient in this scene from the Columbia Pictures release. Dean Jones is the doctor and Barbara Eden the nurse. Others starred in the Robert Cohn production are Telly Savalas, Stefanie Powers, Kay Stevens, Inger Stevens as Nancy and newcomer George Segal. ‘NEW INTERNS’ HOSPITAL In addition to some shooting at Los Angeles County Hospital itself, the largest hospital set ever seen in a motion picture was constructed at Columbia Studios for “The NEW Interns,” exciting drama produced by Robert Cobh-and now at the ..4..2..<. The set, which represents one complete floor of a large metropolitan county hospital, occupied all the available floor space of one of Columbia’s largest sound stages. It consisted of 50 rooms, including three operating rooms, wards, private rooms, nurses’ lounge, doctors’ lounge, emergency admitting, corridors, elevators, admitting office and waiting rooms. To dress the set, Columbia rented hundreds of pieces of hospital equipment, including tables, chairs, surgical instruments and no less than 11,375 medicine bottles. The set dressers added a sign over the admitting office: “Patients Will Have to Pay Bills Before Obtaining Release.” One of Columbia’s most important films of the year, “The NEW Interns” boasts a cast of young and exciting new stars, including Michael Callan, Dean Jones, Telly Savalas, Stefanie Powers, Barbara Eden, George Segal, Kay Stevens, Inger Stevens as Nancy and George Segal. John Rich directed the Robert Cohn production. “The NEW Interns” was written by Wilton Schiller, based on characters from the Richard Frede novel, “The Interns.” ‘The NEW Interns’ GEORGE SEGAL Still No. 3 MICHAEL CALLAN Still No. MC 86 Mat I-C A BABY FOR REEL! Dean Jones was very much an expectant “father” during the filming of “The NEW Interns,” even though his wife was not pregnant. As an obstetrician in the..... Theatre attraction, a Columbia Pictures release produced by Robert Cohn, Jones delivers a baby in one of the film’s key dramatic sequences. In preparing for the part, Jones, through his family’s own obstetrician, received permission from an expectant mother to watch the birth of her baby, which was expected momentarily. He was on a “stand-by” basis to be notified the moment the mother-to-be started for the hospital. DOCTOR IN DISGUISE Jack Lemmon was on hand to serve as “technical adviser” when Michael Callan donned a costume he wears in “The NEW Interns,” the Robert Cohn production at the Theatre. Callan appears as a girl in scenes of the Columbia Pictures release. More specifically, he plays a girl-chasing intern who disguises himself as a nurse in order to win a bet from fellow-interns. In blonde curls, long eyelashes, lipstick, nurse’s uniform and high heels, Callan wanders about the sacrosanct nurses’ quarters of a large metropolitan hospital, ultimately winding up in the room of a nurse who recognizes him. DEAN JONES Still No. 8628-B 104 Mat I-E REVIEW Powerful, compelling and frank in its approach to the facts of life, Columbia Pictures’ “The NEW Interns” opened yesterday ati inetd. sr Theatre. “The NEW Interns,” as its title implies, is the story of young people in an explosive world of manwoman excitement, of life-brimming days and nights. The problems faced by ‘The NEW Interns” are not only those they meet in their. medical books; they also face the personal problems which directly affect their own futures, and what they cannot learn from books, they learn from each other. Michael Callan tops the star cast of “The NEW Interns,” as a brash young girl-chaser who acts as though the student nurses are around for his benefit alone, until he is tamed by pert blonde Barbara Eden. Stefanie Powers appears as a graduate nurse newly-wed to young obstetrician Dean Jones; their marriage is headed for the rocks, however, because’ the young doctor is unable to give her the babies they both so eagerly desire. Telly Savalas, one of the screen’s finest character actors, plays the gruff chief of staff who is prepared to fight with anybody around, but who reserves his biggest growls for rebellious young George Segal, playing a volatile young doctor in love with a social worker. And Inger Stevens, as the social worker, is raped by three hoodlums and winds up in the hospital out of her mind. Kay Stevens, who has a tremendous and_ richly deserved reputation as a comedienne in the night club and television fields, appears in “The NEW Inters” as a nurse who throws a mild “baby party” for the pregnant wife of a new intern; it turns into a breathless, delightful wall-to-wall brawl when “The NEW Interns” exuberantly crash it . . . via ambulance, no less! The separate, and still related, stories of the new interns, and the nurses around them, are deftly played, with elements of comedy and of tragedy sharply delineated. Among the excitements, apart from the personality clashes suggested above, is the fight to save the life of a new-born baby, and the emergency room aftermath of a gang “rumble,” where Segal finally catches up with the hoods who had destroyed his girl. John Rich directed the Richard Cohn production, from _ the screenplay by Wilton Schiller. “The NEW Interns” is based on characters from the best-selling Richard Frede novel, “The Interns.” Mat I|-F