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PACe 3 TV Teletype/CoNTiNuto HOLLYWOOD Dan Jenkins reports: CBS Is hard at work planning a six-star film series, the six stars to rotate but entire series to be based on same locale and framework. JOAN FONTAINE, JOSEPH GOTTEN, CLAUDETTE COLBERT and DONNA REED may be four of the six. * * ♦ Latest files to be Invaded for TV are those of the Boy Scouts' National Court of Honor, on which a new film series is to be based . . . McCadden (GEORGE BURNS) Pro¬ ductions has finished the pilot of another projected CBS film series, Amos »n» Andy's Music Hall . JAMES MASON appears in the first one. « * * BURNS & ALLEN, incidentally, will "go to New York" for next season's first l6 films, reversing the I Love Lucy shift from New York to Hollywood . . . RALPH LEVY, producer-director of The Jack Benny Show , and JOHN TACKABERRY, one of BENNY'S writers, are developing an adventure film series to be shot in Mexico. * * * Bing Crosby Enterprises has demonstrated its new vid¬ eo color tape, which can record and re-transmlt color shows Instantaneously. Chief bug: it takes 2| miles of tape to record a 50-mlnute show . . . 20th Century-Pox's plans for a Mr. Belvedere film series have been post¬ poned for at least a year. * * * TOM D'ANDREA and HAL MARCH, of The Soldiers , have done more battling off-screen than they'll ever do as the GIs they por¬ tray. D'ANDREA, who owns the property, claimed MARCH can't give the show his best while commuting to New York to emcee The $64.000 Question . MARCH claimed NBC cleared him for the quiz show because The Soldiers wasn't due to start 'til fall. But the tw;0 decided to stick together, at least for now. * * * Business is good. In one week recently. Screen Gems used a total of 20 stars and 82 supporting players in its various film series. Five years ago, one series. Silver Theater , was being filmed in all of Hollywood. * * * MARIA ALBERGHETTI set to headline the July 31 Colgate Var- iety Hour . . . BOB LE MOND replaces LEE BOWMAN next fall as host of NBC'Spectaculars" . . . The 10 CBS monthly super-shows. Ford Star Jubilee, get underway Sept. 24 with PAUL GREGORY'S "The Big banjo." GREGORY will do one other, BING CROSBY will do two, NOEL COWARD will do "Blithe Spirit" and "Peace in Our Time." MARY MARTIN also set for one of the 10. * * * MARIAN ROSS, the maid on Life with Father, who re¬ cently did a standout Job in '^Dinner at Eight," has landed a top role with BILL HOLDEN and DEBORAH KERR in "The Proud and the Profane" at Paramount—the studio that once had her under contract and never used her. 23