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TV Teletype ^/conunoio mom PAct a HOLLYWOOD Pan Jenkins reports: NBC has bought a new ALEXANDER KORDA movie, vriilch will have its first U.S. showing as a TV "spectacular' in early October. The movie, titled "The Constant Husband" and starring REX HARRISON, is now playing in England but won't be released to U.S. until after its television premiere—the first time a major movie production has been so Introduced. KORDA's representatives say the publicity will be good for the movie, that other producers would like to do the same—if they weren't "too timid." * * * M-G-M's movie, "I'll Cry Tomorrow," opens with a re¬ enactment of the LILLIAN ROTH episode from This Is Your Life . , . JEAN HERSHOLT, not WENDELL COREY,"will play the lead in Dr. Christian films. COREY will co-star. * * * Summer replacement for Lux Video Theater will be a live, hour- long dramatic show. Lux Studio Workshop , featuring movie-owned properties not yet produced and young major-studio players, for whom this series will be an Important break. Low-budget sets will be in keeping with the workshop flavor. Show starts June 30. * * * A new adventure series, African Drumbeat , will head¬ line KEVIN MC CARTHY. Filming starts in South Africa July 1 . . . MAX LIEBMAN's July 2 spectacular will be built around Universal-International stars and film clips . . . His August 27 "One Touch of Venus" will originate at Dallas State Pair, with RUSSELL NYPE. « « « A used car dealer here is serving a jail term for false ad¬ vertising on TV. He also was socked with a $1,000 fine . . . The Lassie producers are planning a new series. Captains Coura/?- eous , filmed in and around Mexican waters. . . Lassie , meanwhile, will be replaced in 60 markets this summer by the old Pride of the Family series, starring PAUL HARTMAN and FAY WRAY. * * * GUY MADISON signed to produce six feature films for Columbia, starring in four of them . . . The Lloyd C. Douglass book, "Dr. Hudson's Secret Journal," will be filmed as a series, with JOHN HOWARD . . . LENA HORNE, STAN KENTON'S first guest on Music 55 . set to star in an upcoming spectacular, "Helen of Troy." * * * SID CAESAR backing an hour-long film series, O.S.S .. to be shot in Rome. Basic idea is to concentrate on writing and di¬ rection, using talented fledglings rather than stars. . . DAVID 0. SELZNICK reportedly set to produce three NBC spectaculars next season at Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter. * * * A regular segment of Mickey Mouse Club will be a serial, "Marty Markham,concerning a boy, a horse and an English butler . . . CHARLES BOYER will make three Four Star Playhouse episodes in Prance this summer. 23