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: Dan Jenkins reports:
RKO's backlog, numbering around 750 features and 950 shorts, is being quietly offered to TV in a few test markets. Reported price is $15,000,000 in a package deal to any major dis
tributor, but the pictures will most likely be sold piecemeal to individual stations and Stet groups.
Warner Bros. to shoot the pilot film for a projected new adventure series, Amazon Trader, starring JOHN SUTTON and made with actual Amazon River backgrounds. JACK WARNER, JR., will produce, Sees 55 , * * & ma _ Newest trend is TV film series in which major cities are practically the "stars." Both New York and Chicago civic leaders are now discussing proffered plans for such shows... Executives at a major movie studio watch NBC Matinee Theater every day on color sets in their studio dining room--looking for new faces,
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PAUL NEWMAN's acting chore in "The Battler" on Playwrights 156 may land him the lead in the ROCKY GRAZIANO story at M-G-M. GRAZIANO, of course, isn't considered the type .. . The giveaway trend has reached a crescendo. Through the medium of The Lawrence Welk Show on ABC, Dodge will give a new car every year for life to four winners of a new safety-slogan contest.
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Cast for BING CROSBY's "High Tor," now being filmed by Desilu for Ford Star Jubilee, includes NANCY OLSON, British star JULIE ANDREWS, HANS CONRIED, LLOYD CORRIGAN, EVERETT SLOANE .. . ABC has a deal for a minimum of 26 hour-long TV films, with three . rotating stars, to start on the network next fall. Series, called Wire Service, will be filmed in Hollywood, London and Paris. The Tate JOHN HODIAK had been tabbed for one of the leads. x * * WAYNE MORRIS will star ina series of adventure films
now shooting in London . . . 20th Century-Fox has de
cided to forego the richly decorated sets and concen
trate instead on story and characters in its TV films
for G.E.'s 20th Century-Fox Hour . . . ALAN YOUNG set for a Studio One starring role Nov. 28. Soe eee * # JEANNE CRAIN has just completed her first TV film, a Ford
Theater episode titled "Airborne Honeymoon" , . . Look for EDDIE FISHER to do "I Hear America Singing" as a CBS spectacular
« « JACK CHERTOK, producer of Private Secretary, has taken over production plans for the long-delayed Tugboat Annie series, & %&
ROBERT RYAN will make his TV debut soon as LINCOLN in CHRISTOPHER MORLEY's "Lincoln's Doctor's Dog" on.
Screen Directors! Playhouse . . . And Captain Jet, local kid-show star, is Lionel the Lion on The Pinky Lee Show.
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