Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-05-06

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In due course. he will be rep
there these days and nights. This
is not the sole purpose of his
pilgrimage to Lotusland-by- the
Pacific. however. Nor is he out
there trying to get that Screen
Directors Guild best-critic award
for the second year in a row. It's
already been bestowed this year
What lures Mr.. Carmody to
Hollywood this time is a CO.
starring role with Doris Day and
Clark Gable in a movie called
Teachers Pet" He may not
actually have said he was going
to costar in the film, but that
was definitely the impression left
behind on his departure.
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He might denote himself, of
course. If the opportunity came
to get an Academy Award for
best supporting performance. He
knows exactly which Oscar he
wants to get, too. He wants to
get that one back from Dorothy
Malone for Written on the
Wind"
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The notion that this film is to
be released with the. legend Jay
Carmody-Doris Day-Clark Gable
in Teachers Pet" is somewhat
diluted by other news from
Hollywood. This is to the effect
that William Perlberg and
George Seaton are making a
movie called Teachers Pet"
starring Miss Day and Gable.
1t has a newspaper background
and Messrs. Perlberg and Seaton
think they have hit upon a fool
proof scheme for avoiding the
rancor critics express toward
far-fetched newspaper films.
They have selected so authentic
newspapermen by lot, from the
names Of all those willing. to 60
out there and watch over things.
They have transported them to
put them to work today, as both
technical advisors and as actors
playing newspapermen. Now, no.
body can say those characters in
Teachers Pet" don't look like
real reporters. And anybody who
wants to say the newsroom &C.
tivity in the movie isn't true to
life will have so experts to blame.
There Is just one flaw in this
plan that its perpetrators may
have overlooked. Getting so
newspapermen to agree on any,
thing may be harder work than
making q movie.
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OF course in our Mr.. Carmody
Mr.. Perlberg and Mr.. Seaton
have a technical advisor who will
be both able and willing. As any
editor around these Star prem
ises knows. Mr.. Carmody is ready
at any time to speak lucidly and
eloquently on how a newspaper
should be run. He will be equally
willing to tell couple Of motion
picture producers named PERL
berg and Seaton.
He will. If the occasion seems
TO demand it. outvote the other
members Of this technical direc-
tors panel 1-to-49. With the
possible exception Of Irv Kup-
cinet Of Chicago. who is APP
proximately twice MIR. Carmody's
size. Come to think Of it. this
Is not likely to give him pause,
either.
Mr. Carmody's acting is some
thing else, at the present an un-
known quantity among all the
production details of Teachers
Pet" He did go before the
cameras for another movie. that
time co-starring with Eva Marie
Saint and Elizabeth Taylor.
1t was last summer and the
picture was "Raintree County"
Mr.. Carmody donned frock coat
and top hat and looked sad for
MGM as the train bearing Abra-
ham Lincoln's remains back
home passed by. There has
since sprung UP a rumor that the
director achieved the desired ex-
preston by subterfuge. He told
Mr.. c. that the train bore, not
Lincoln, but the scenario for
Written on the Wind" in which
someone was sure to win an
Academy Award for over exer-
ton.
However achieved, the pictorial
evidence that got back here in
dictated that Mr.. Carmody was
a pretty sad actor. Perlberg
and Seaton can take advantage