Native Detroiter Finds Success as TV Producer

For Paul Freeman, a native of
Detroit who produces Universal
Television's "The Virginian," di-
versified training has been the
foundation of his success in tele-
vision.
A former associate producer on
Universal's series, "Run for Your
Life" and The Outsider," Free-

George Seaton. He is also a mem-
ber of the honorary film frater-
nity, DKA.
Freeman applied to the MCA
agency in 1959. The company
signed him as an agent-trainee, but
soon after MCA was dissolved. He
was brought to Universal as pro-
duction assistant on the new tele-
vision series "Wide C'ountry."
He was elevated to associate
producer for the "Kraft Suspense
Theater" and later helped develop

"The Munsters" pilot film.
Freeman was again called as
associate producer for "Run For
Your Life."
From his last assignment as
associate on "The Outsider" he
was promoted to full producer
on the western, "The Virginian,"
which will enter its eighth sea-
son this fall.
Freeman, his wife Barbara and
their son Michael reside in Brent-
wood, a suburb of Los Angeles.

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"THE LEARNING TREE"

produced a directed by Gordon Parks
Technicolor-Panavision
Shown at 11:30, 1:40, 3:50, 6:05, 8:15
10:25.

Wed. Ladies Day — 75c

PAUL

FOX

FREEMAN

man was timed this season to join
the team of producers for the 90-
minute %%e.1 rn adventure series.

The son of former Detriters Mr.
and Mrs. Ben Fishman, now of
California. Freeman was 13 when
his father moved the family west.

Freeman brushed shoulders
success in the entertain-
ment field while in high school.
Acting in a production of
"George Washington Slept Here"
at Fairfax High, he wasn't in-
terested in becoming an actor
even though the performance
earned him that year's best
actor award.
Following four years of service
with the U.S. Air Force, he en-
tered the University of California
at Los Angeles, m ajoring in
cinema arts.
Freeman was graduated with
honors and was specially selected
to join a small group of graduates
for a studio training course under
filmmakers William Perlberg and

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38—Friday, October 17, 1969

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5:00 shown 6:50, 10:10.
plus Jack Lemmon in

"THE WONDERFUL LAND OF OZ"

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"RACHEL. RACHEL"

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Katherine Hepburn, Peter O'Toole

"THE LION IN WINTER"

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8:05, 10:30. WK. NIGHTS 7:05, 9:30.
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OPENS 11:30 "WONDERFUL LAND OF
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JERUSALEM (ZINS) — Rotary
Club members from all over the
country have begun a volunteer
campaign to relieve night watch-
men in border settlements in the
Jordan and Seism.' valleys.
Rotarians—and others who have
asked to be included in the volun-
teer operation—will leave for the
border Friday afternoon and re-
turn home Sunday morning. They
will stand watch Friday and Satur-
day nights, so that kibutz mem-
bers may spend their normal pat-
rol hours with their families or
catching up on much-needed sleep.

Shelley Winters' Glamorous Roles

By HERBERT G. LUFT

(Copyright 1969, JTA, Inc.)

Shelley Winters, long - time sup
porter of the State of Israel, com-
pleted her current motion picture
assignment on location in Arkan-
sas soon enough to be at hand for
the receptions honoring Premier
Golda Meir both here in Los An-
geles and on the East Coast.
The 47-year-old film star, born
Shirley Schrift in St. Louis, . e..
twice an Academy-Award winner,
took another Oscar-potential role
as the infamous Ma Barker in
American-International's "Bloody
Mama" — quite a departure from
the portrayal of the Jewish house-
wife in the George Stevens pro-
duction of "The Diary of Anne
Frank." Wholly committed to
every project on which she em-
barks, Shelley has been described
as a whirlwind of talent, both as
"blonde bombshell" and in such
unglamorous roles as the one in
"Diary" and in Stevens adaptation
of Theodore Dreiser's "A Place in
the Sun" ("An American Trag-
edy").
First on the stage in the Broad-
way production of "Meet the Peo-
ple," she made her movie debut
exactly a quarter of a century ago
in a small part in a none-too-dis-
tinguished, long-forgotten film en-
titled, "Nine Girls." The role of
the tawdry waitress murdered by
Ronald Colman in George Cukor's
"A Double Life" brought her to
the attention of the broad public
and netted her the first Academy
Award nomination. On Broadway,
she startled audiences with her
performance in Mike Gazzo's "A
Hatful of Rain" in 1956; on televi-
sion she earned an Emmy with her
portrayal in "Two Is the Number"
in 1963. Capturing the much covet-
ed Oscar for "The Diary of Anne
Frank" in 1959, she repeated the
Academy-Award-winning perform-
ance with "A Patch of Blue" in
1965.
In "Bloody Mama," Shelley
Winters is the boss and brains of a
bank robbery and kidnaping gang
—Ma Barker, who machine-gunned
her way to the top of the public
enemy list in the 19305. The cu-
rrent assignment calls for the vim
and gusto which are an inherent
part of the Shelley Winter person-
ality.
*
Roger Corman decided to film
"Bloody Mama" entirely on loca-
tion of the authentic Arkansas
background to capture the full-
reality of the Barker family's sor-
did, poverty-ridden origin in the
Ozark mountains. Robert Thom's
original screenplay goes into the
"why" as well as the "what" of
the gang's crimes.
This is the second teaming of
writer Thom with actress Shelley
Winters, the actress having starred
in his production of "Wild in the
Streets." Thom, one of Hollywood's
most-talked-about writers for his
controversial scripts, recently both
wrote and directed "Angel, Angel,
Down We Go." an ultra-modern
motion picture of moods and sha-
dows starring Jennifer Jones (Mrs.
David Selznick) in her screen
comeback as a tragically involved.
neurotic woman, wife and mother.
More shocking than the picture's
dealing with unrepentant murder,
corruption, seduction, flagellation
and homosexuality, plus a great
deal of male nudity, are the re-
marks of young producer Jerry
Katzman, a former attorney, who
made the film for his father, vet-
eran producer Sam Katzman.
The picture mocking motherhood.
sexual fidelity and "the establish-
ment" in general, is being justified
by Jerry Katzman in this way:
movies are only successful when
based on the proposition that man
is fundamentally evil. "We have to
make films that satisfy the baser
appetites in man, in order to have
him do the good things that he
does." This philosophy, to young
Katzman, assures a profit and also
a chance to serve a useful social
purpose. Katzman's maxim for
contemporary filmmakers is that
the picture that .doesn't offend. oc
repel an audience is not giving the

public its money's worth. He
argues the judgment is the pub-
lic's, not his.
* * *
Ruth Gordon, the Academy
winning
actress of "Rose-
Award -
oiary's Baby," has been signed to
star with Michael Sarrazin and
Barbara Hershey in the David
Susskind production of "The Pur-
suit of Happiness," which is now
before the cameras with Robert
Mulligan direction from a Sidney
Carroll screenplay based on Thom-
as Rogers' bestseller. The veteran
actress-playwright portrays Sarra-
zin's wealthy and cantankerous
grandmother in the realistic but
wryly humorous yarn of a young
couple who are too aware to fit in
and too concerned to drop out of
present day American society. The
picture is made for Columbia
Studios.
* *
"A bright-faced young American,
bespectacled, full of pep and vital-
ity—supreme optimist of the late
twenties." That's how author Jack
Davies and director Ken Annakin
describe the comic character Tony
Curtis portrays in their wildly
funny film s:omedy, "Monte Carlo
Rally, - a breezy and affectionate
tribute to the car-crazy buffs who
roar across Europe each winter in
mad competition.
Born Bernard Schwartz, the son
of an Hungarian immigrant, ex-
tough kid from the Bronx, he was
catapulted to fam..-! in just three
days from a role in an off-Broad-
way play to a Hollywood film con-
tract 20 years ago. His earliest
starring role was one of a swash-
buckler in "The Prince Who Was
a Thief"—a little known work of
the late Theodore Dreiser.
Tony Curtis is in Istabul, Turkey,
playing one half of "The Dubious
Patriots," another swashbuckling
! role this one the one of a heel, a
reckless, ruthless expatriate adrift
in the crumbling Ottoman Empire.
I One of the Pasha's dignitaries is
i portrayed by Gregoire Asian who
I depicted the Jewish father in the
! French-made "Marry Me! Marry
Me!" (Mazeltov) with so much
warmth and charm.
Anouk Aimee, the Sephardic
Jewess from Paris, who won the
Golden Globe Award from the
Foreign Press two years ago, now
portrays the Jewish wife of an
Egyptian banker, one of the Coptic
faith, in the film of "Justine,"
from the "Alexandria Quartet" of
novels by Lawrence Durrell.
Though a superb love story, the
political implication of the screen-
play written by Lawrence Marcus
is off-key and will give people new
thought for hate. According to the
film, the Copts were in cahoots
with the Palestinian Jews to drive
the British out of the Holy Land
right before outbreak of World
War II. The story doesn't concern
itself in the least with the plight of
European Jewry to reach Palestine
at any price at that time in order
to escape mass execution. On the
contrary, the dialogue states that
the Jews promised the Christian
Arabs (from Egypt) sanctuary
when the worst comes to worst;
because the Copts had sent guns to
Palestine to help fight the British
army.
Aside from the lopsided story
approach, "Justine" is a beautiful-
ly mounted film, directed by now
70-year-old George Cukor who had
not made a motion picture since
the successful "My Fair Lady."
Pandro S. Berman produced and
Jerry Goldsmith contributed the
hauntingly beautiful score. As an
oddity, Jack Albertson, the Irish
actor who won the supporting
"Oscar" this year, was cast in the
role of a Jewish furrier named
Cohen, in the film "a dirty old
man" who runs after young girls.

The Late Joseph Barondess
Russian-born American Zionist
Joseph Barondess was a founder of
the American Jewish Congress and
was a member of its delegation re-
sponsible for the incorporation of
safeguards for Jewish minority
rights.. in. . the . Alersaille . Peace
Treaty in 1919. He died in 1928.

