TV Guide (June 4, 1955)

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TV Teletype/ CONTINUED TtOM PACE 3 HOLLYWOOD Dan Jenkins reports: A new Screen Directors' Guild TV film series, predicted here six weeks ago, has been set by HAL ROACH, JR., with Eastman Kodak sponsoring. A top movie director will direct each epi¬ sode. Proceeds go to the Guild's relief fund . . . Producer s' wants JACKIE COOPER to do two 45-mlnute dramas, based on HEMINGWAY and FAULKNER stories. In one 90-minute outing. * * * Considering the prevalent death rate among situation comedies. It's news that December Bride has been renewed for next season . . . My Favorite Husband goes by the boards, to be replaced on CBS by the new JANIS PAIGE film sei’les. The Four Of Us . another Desllu-produced story. Bad news, parents: Disneyland next season moves from 7:30 to an 0 P.M. starting time ... ABC has set a new film series, Wyatt Earp. to follow the hour-long Warner Brothers Presents on Tuesday nights In the fall . . . Gg O RflE bURMS Is ready bo produce still another comedy series. Roommates. CAROL CHANNING, BASIL RATHBONE and RUSSELL ARMS will headline NBC's July 30 "spectacular,” "Svengall and the Blonde, a musical version of "Trilby.” ALAN HANDLEY will produce and direct. ETHEL BARRYMORE, will narrate. . . TOMMY RETTIG, of Lassie . Is now earning $1250 a week for playing with a dog — which Is nice work If you can get it. « « » The June 15 GE Theater , a live hour-long telecast of "Ah Wilderness .” will star LEON AMES, the Father of Life wlth“’The new series. Incidentally, will give 15l5Tnutes to plugs — In¬ cluding nine minutes for new 20th Century-Fox pictures The Lone Ranger has a new four-year, $20,000,000 deal with its two sponsors. * * * ERNEST BORGNINE, the movies' "Marty," has the lead in the first 0. Henry Television Playhouse eolsode . . . FORREST TU^JlSfiR will star In a PHILIP miE series. Crunch Adams and Desperate Smith , filming to start next month In Bermuda Tor NBC . . . ROD CAMERON, star of City Detective . Is working on a pilot for a new series. State Trooper .(Next step. Federal Dick.) * * * renewed . . . Columnist SHEILAH who used to do It for a living, will sing and dance on ^e Jimmy Durante Show late this month . . . Star at RED SKELTON'; blrthaay party Tor his two children: DAVY CROCKETT, In puhson. complete with coonskln cap. (Item: price of artificial coonskln has gone from 6 cents a pound to $4.) * * * DIZZY DEAN, ad libbing on CBS' game-of-the-week: "You only got two chances with them umpires -- slim and none " DEAN doesn't have any writers, either. - - 23