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LESLIE NIELSEN PORTRAYS
FAMOUS ASTRONAUT IN FILM
Leslie Nielsen at long last has inherited a screen role he says is right down his avocational alley.
He's an aviation buff and in his current co-starring stint with Don Knotts, Arthur O'Connell and Joan Freeman in Universal's "The Reluctant Astronaut" he finally gets to portray a hot-shot flier. The hilarious Technicolor comedy is at the ....... Theatre.
Nielsen, a Canadian by birth, managed to log thousands of hours in the air during three years of service with the Royal Canadian Air Force. Now that he's a star, with his services constantly in demand, he has to confine his flying to weekends.
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The actor's role in "The Reluctant Astronaut," which Edward J. Montagne produced and directed, launched a new phase of his career for Nielsen, who only recently
was placed under exclusive contract to Universal.
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His initial assignment, under the pact, prior to "Astronaut,' but earlier he had co-starred with Debbie Reynolds in "Tammy and the Bachelor." Studio toppers would have signed him at the time were it not for the fact that he was then under contract to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Nielsen's original ambition, on arrival in Hollywood, was to become a cinematographer, and to further this goal he enrolled in a cinema course at UCLA. Not until he was well along in his studies did he discover that far more fascinating to him than lenses and lighting was the art of acting.
Always willing to devote his entire energies to his chosen field, Nielsen joined the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York City and at the same time supplemented this training with special tutelage by the noted drama coach Sanford Meisner.
A six foot two specimen weighing a trim 185 pounds, the actor looks every inch the prototype for a flier, even to eyes the same cerulean blue as the skies he likes to crisscross at the controls of a plane.
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