JK At the Tee in 1963 :)

Hello Everyone!

On June 16, 1963, a charmingly tousled Jack Kelly participated in the third annual Celebrity Golf Tournament at March Air Force Base in Riverside, California:

In 1962, JK won a trophy at the same tourney for "the longest drive off the 10th tee" (354 yards). 

Shown in the background is Bob Wilke, famed western bad guy who won the tourney's top prize in 1961 and was competing again in 1963. JK had previously faced Wilke both on the links and on Maverick.

Please stay tuned "fore" more about JK in TDS! :)

Horton Has A Flop (And So Does Jack Kelly) :)

Hi Everyone!

Here's another little tidbit about Kings Row, from a 1958 magazine article about actor Robert Horton of Wagon Train fame. Horton co-starred with Jack Kelly in the ill-fated Kings Row series and naturally had nothing good to say about the show:

"Turning to television in preference to what he calls bad movies, Horton soon found himself--like Jack Kelly of Maverick and Nan Leslie late of The Californians--an unhappy alumnus of Kings Row, first of Warner Bros.' TV 'trilogy' of 1955-'56.

"'I was never so glad to see anything come to end,' he says emphatically. 'Actually, Kelly got hurt much worse than I did. He was hot, and I wasn't. So all they figured was that Kelly had a flop.'

"Actually, Horton today believes that Kings Row saved his professional life. 'They told me it was going to be the big hit of the three [shows]--Casablanca and Cheyenne were the other two--and I believed every word of it. It taught me to be a lot more selective about what I do.'"

And, just as Robert Horton got back on the horse and became Flint McCullough, JK also dusted himself off from the Kings Row fiasco and became Bart Maverick. 

JK and RH were later interviewed for an article in "Show Business Illustrated" about TV westerns. JK also guest-starred on Wagon Train, but by that time (1963), RH had already left the series.

Please stay tuned for more Jack Kelly lore in TDS--and stay safe and well. :)

Today in Jack Kelly History...

On 12/30/1963, JK appeared as disgraced wagonmaster "Fenton Canaby" on ABC's Wagon Train:

Taking A Spin...

Hello Everyone,

I'm very thankful to be here.

You see, yesterday afternoon I took the Bartistamobile for a spin...literally.

I was on my way to meet a friend for some after Christmas bargain shopping. Although it had rained hard all morning, the sun was now shining. It looked like it would be an enjoyable afternoon.

That is, until I started down an exit ramp near my home which I've used hundreds of times without incident. Apparently, the ramp was still slick from the morning's downpour and the Bartistamobile hydroplaned.

What began as an ordinary day suddenly became a frightening whirl as my vehicle spun out of control. I'm sure it was only a few seconds, but it seemed like an hour as I tried to steer into the skid as I'd been advised to do by safe driving videos I'd viewed at work.

Unfortunately, the Bartistamobile had left the pavement and was now sliding downwards on soggy grass with zero traction. All I could do was pray to the Lord that the car wouldn't roll over.

It didn't, and for a moment I thought I was in the clear. Then, I heard and felt a hard "thunk" as we finally stopped. I peeked in the rearview mirror. Somehow, the Bartistamobile's rear bumper smacked the concrete base of a light pole during our unplanned pirouette.

The light pole was unscathed, naturally. Thankfully, I was uninjured. But, the Bartistamobile wasn't so blessed. I turned the hazard lights on and got out to check the damage.

The rear bumper had done exactly what it was supposed to do: absorb the impact of the crash. In so doing, however, the bumper crumpled and was partially detached from both sides of the vehicle. This wasn't going to buff out...

I got back into the car and composed myself. This was my first automobile accident ever and I was pretty shaken up. Actually, the scariest part of this incident was that no one who was driving by at the time and presumably observed what was happening stopped to see if I was okay or offer to help. Not one person!

I called my friend to cancel our shopping trip. The Bartistamobile could still be driven, so I steered out of the muddy grass and returned home. Then, I called my insurance company to file a claim. They're sending a claims adjuster out on Monday to assess the damage. Hopefully, I will be in good hands and like a good neighbor they will be on my side. ;>

This just goes to show that the spin of a wheel can change your day...and your life. Just like in Las Vegas, the setting for "The Name of the Game", a 1963 episode of Kraft Suspense Theatre starring Jack Kelly:

JK with co-star Nancy Kovack



JK portrays "Pete Braven", a down on his luck professional dice player who enters into a deal with wealthy oilman "Ed Caldwell" (Pat Hingle). If Braven can help Caldwell break the bank at a casino, the two men will split the winnings. If not...well, of course, complications ensue.

"Switch dice? No dice!"

"C'mon, baby needs a new pair of cowboy boots!"

Below is a behind-the-scenes color photo from "The Name of the Game":

"Actors and extras surround dice table, cut away for camera in a scene for 'The Name of the Game'. Pointing, far left, is Jack Kelly." 

According to TV Guide, no expense was spared to ensure the gaming in "The Name of the Game" looked realistic. It apparently looked a little too real, though:

"'Well,' said Jack Kelly, who not two years ago flipped his last card as a gambler in Maverick, 'here I am at the gambling tables again.'

"In Maverick, however, Kelly seldom if ever gambled on as elaborate a set as that turned out by producer Robert Blees for 'The Name of the Game', a Kraft Suspense Theatre episode scheduled for airing on NBC Dec. 26. Blees had a replica of a casino built inside a sound stage on the Revue lot at a cost of some $20,000--the most expensive set the studio has ever had for a single TV episode...From Las Vegas, Blees imported 'stick men' (craps-table operators) and a 'box man' (money-handler). From central casting came 100 extras, and from the studio's prop department came 500 silver dollars and $1000 in bills (by way of a bank--it was real money, carefully watched on the set for any leakage), two craps tables, two roulette tables and two '21' tables. Sixty-one slot machines were rented, and here's where a slight hitch occurred.

"Some sharp-eyed bystanders saw the machines being loaded on trucks and promptly called the sheriff, who confiscated 13 of them as being operable and therefore illegal. The remaining 48, whose innards had been removed, were released for use on the set."

JK's dice-playing also looks authentic because (as reported by the Long Beach Independent) he was coached by a California shoe store owner who moonlighted as Hollywood's "strangest technical advisor" under the secretive sobriquet of "Mr. Fingers". Mr. Fingers was the studios' go-to guy when stars needed to learn how to convincingly handle dice, cards or other people's wallets onscreen. In addition to coaching JK, he taught poker skills to Tony Curtis for 40 Pounds of Trouble (1963) and to Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau for The Odd Couple (1968). The light-fingered Mr. Fingers also taught actor Millard Mitchell how to pick pockets for his role in the 1952 film My Six Convicts.  

UPDATE! (1/26/19) - JK was also coached by Angelo Schiano, one of the stick-men imported from Las Vegas. Below is a behind-the-scenes photo dated 11/7/1963 which was recently purchased for the Kellection:

The snipe reads: "LESSON IN GAMBLING - Preparing for roles in a television drama, Jack Kelly and his co-star, Nancy Kovack, learn the fine points of betting from Angelo Schiano on the TV set in Hollywood. Schiano is one of a group of dealers brought from Las Vegas as technical experts for the play, which will presented on NBC-TV's 'Kraft Theater' [sic]. Schiano is showing the pair how to place bets at a craps table."

And, here's another promo photo which I've actually had for years but forgot to add! The lucky ladies with JK are Peggy Ward (L) and Sharon Morrell (R) as cocktail waitresses:

 

Finally, the entire episode of "The Name of the Game" used to be on YouTube, but it seems to be gone for now. Maybe it'll be reposted some day. In the meantime, please drive carefully. :)
 

A Maverick in the Queen City - Pt. III

Hi!


JK and Broderick Crawford try to

decipher the plot

of "Shadow of A Man"

 

As promised, here's a humorous look at Jack Kelly's Kraft Mystery Theater episode "Shadow of a Man", penned by Cincinnati Post TV columnist Mary Wood and published on 6/20/1963:

"Kraft Mystery Theater returned to its old summer hour on NBC-TV last night, and, as far as I'm concerned, it certainly lived up to its title. Why poor Ed Begley was left up a creek without a paddle for insuring bridges and viaducts is still a mystery to me.

Is there an insurance man in the house who can explain it?

Until they sprang the bridges and viaducts on me, I had the plot fairly well in hand. It went like this: Handsome Jack Kelly, a former Brother Maverick, rode into a small southern town and started asking questions about the town's leading and most popular citizen, Ed Begley, a successful insurance man. In order to meet lovable old Ed, Jack cozied up to his beautiful daughter, Beverley Owen.

Tain't long before Handsome Jack, who is really an insurance investigator, fell into his own cozy trap. He was smitten with Beverley's charms, which were profuse.

So far, I'm with them--wholeheartedly.

Now comes Brod Crawford, a hard-bitten insurance investigator who is convinced that lovable Ed has absconded with $75,000 of the insurance company's dough. Insurance companies, I'm led to believe, take a dim view of such goings on, no matter how lovable the culprit nor how fine his motives.

Well, it finally was revealed that poor Ed was being blackmailed by his accountant. That I could understand because the accountant had a very shifty eye.

But they completely lost me right after the third commercial, the one for the sandwich loaf made with layers of egg salad, watercress, ham salad and iced with cream cheese. Then you slice it down. Yummy!

Oh yes. They lost me when that hard-nosed Brod found that poor Ed had been insuring bridges and viaducts because he couldn't get insurance on himself. Then poor Ed shot the blackmailing accountant on a lonely road and wounded himself. He lived long enough to run his car over one of those well-insured viaducts and that was that.

Beverley bid a sad farewell to Handsome Jack at the funeral and he rode off with hard-nosed Brod. So much for that promising romance.

But the bridges and the viaducts were never explained to my satisfaction, and I'm beginning not to care anymore."

If you care to watch "Shadow of a Man", here's a link to it.

Please stay tuned for more about Jack Kelly in TDS. :)

"Yes, It's True, Maverick is Here!" :)

Hi!

If we fans want to watch Jack Kelly in Maverick these days, we can pop a disc into the DVD player or computer. But, what about when Maverick originally aired, in the days when there were only three major networks and no way to record shows at home? What happened if you had only one TV and someone else in the family wanted to watch Ed Sullivan, which meant you missed Bart and/or Bret that week? Or, if Maverick wasn't shown in your town at all? (It seems strange, but Maverick didn't originally air in all markets.)

Well, I did some digging, and it turns out Henry J. Kaiser, the show's primary sponsor, addressed the latter problem in 1958 by announcing that Maverick would "blanket the country" and be seen in more U.S. cities than ever before.  The way Henry J. saw it, it would be almost un-American not to air Maverick: "It is high time to quit selling America short and to put into action the faith, courage and work that will swiftly get the country moving forward full blast. Selling will be a major key to unleashing the forces that will take our people to unprecedented heights."

In other words, the more eyeballs on Maverick, the more sales for Kaiser:

The folks who finally got to see Maverick were pretty excited about it ("YES, IT'S TRUE, MAVERICK IS HERE!"):

"They were both born Maverick...Bret and Bart...brothers who accepted life as a gamble, but who would settle for nothing less than an honest game."

 



And, the public's love for Maverick didn't cease when the series vamoosed from ABC's lineup in 1962. It was pretty popular in syndication, too. Below are a couple of 1963 newspaper ads from Lima, Ohio:

 



 Here's a 1965 ad from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, complete with daily schedule (can you name the episodes from their descriptions?):

 

Finally, here's a 1973 ad from Des Moines, Iowa:

 

 

I read in an antiques column that interest in a popular TV show character often fades about 25 years after the last new episode of the character's show airs. That would have been 1987 for Maverick. Fortunately, Bart and Bret Maverick's popularity has extended into the 21st century, even though they're not so easy to find on the airwaves anymore. Until recently, Maverick was running on the Encore Westerns cable channel. Then, diginet Me-TV announced the show was joining their Fall 2016 schedule, then abruptly announced it wasn't. Oh well...thank goodness we have new ways of watching those Maverick boys nearly 60 years after they first rode onto the TV range. :)



JK: Last of the Mohicans! :)

Olá! (that's Portuguese for "Hello")

Continuing our jaunt around the wide wide world of Kellectibles, and just ahead of the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, here's a magazine article about Jack Kelly--from Rio de Janeiro! :)

It's from the February 1963 issue of Cinelandia, sort of the Brazilian version of Photoplay. Maverick had already ended its original run in the U.S., but it was apparently still running in Brazil since the text of the article laments that JK is the "last of the Mavericks", though the title of the article actually translates as "The Last of the Mohicans"!

The article has some great photos. Unfortunately, they're dark and grainy. I tried to brighten them as best I could. Anyway, as long as we can see Jack, right? ;) Enjoy!

JK and a visitor to the set

 

 Another visitor and the text of the article

 

While getting his hair colored gray for the role of "Uncle Bentley" in the "Pappy" episode of Maverick, JK chats with actress Kay Elhardt, who played Bart Maverick's would-be Mammy! :)



Here, JK confers with William Stuart, who produced eight episodes of Maverick during its final season.

Jack Kelly: A Valentine's Mystery Solved? :)

Happy Valentine's Day Everyone!

On February 14, 1963, the Ocala (FL) Star-Banner reported that Jack Kelly had arrived out of the blue at Six-Gun Territory, a newly opened Wild West-themed attraction near Ocala. According to the news story, the park's PR director, Frank McDowell, was mystified by JK's unscheduled appearance.

Although JK explained that he had dropped by "to see a friend", it still seemed odd to see him unexpectedly strolling the streets of Six-Gun Territory...on Valentine's Day, no less. Had the actor become a real-life maverick? Why had he suddenly appeared in Florida?

Actually, a follow-up story printed in the Star-Banner on 2/17/63 shed a little more light on JK's seemingly impromptu visit to the Sunshine State. This story identified the friend he'd visited--Bob Marks. Marks was a Thoroughbred horse farm owner who later became president of the Ocala Jockey Club. (Trivia: In 1972, a colt born on Marks' farm ran in the Preakness and the Belmont Stakes. The colt's name? Smiling Jack--but he wasn't named after JK.) 

Betty Wardlow, the writer of the 2/17 story, noted, "Jack Kelly, who looks very much at home at Six-Gun Territory, is a tall, good looking gentleman, much better looking in person than on television, who likes to hunt and fish. No, I didn't ask him if he had any money pinned inside his coat, but I was tempted."

JK told Ms. Wardlow that this was his first visit to Florida and he was quite taken with the Ocala area and its beautiful horse farms. The article even included a photo of JK showing card tricks to Marks. It also added that JK had gone on from Ocala to "Crystal River on business".

Thanks to a 1963 press photo which recently joined the Kellection, I think I know what that "business" was:

Yes, that's JK blissfully piloting a golf cart with his lovely wife Donna (May Wynn) smiling beside him.

The photo caption says, "RIDING GOLF RANGE--Maverick star, Jack Kelly, and wife saddled golf cart during vacation at Florida's newest resort, Paradise Plantation Hotel and Country Club at Crystal River on Florida's west coast. Kelly broke from work developing a new western series to vacation at hotel's opening weekend."

And, guess when that opening weekend was? Articles in the Star-Banner, Lakeland Ledger and the St Petersburg Times announced the $1.5 million resort's grand opening would occur on February 15, 1963--one day after JK made his surprise appearance at Six-Gun Territory.

Well, the mystery behind JK's visit to Florida may be solved, but it's no mystery now that his marriage wasn't really all that sunny in 1963. He and Donna divorced in 1964. The Paradise Plantation resort also went through some rough patches, but it still exists today. It's now known as The Plantation On Crystal River.

And, that "new western series" JK was reportedly developing? In early 1963, there was mention of a possible TV series based on the 1940 film Boom Town which would have paired JK with his former Warner Bros stablemate Clint Walker. That may have been the series the photo caption was referring to, but, unfortunately this Boom was a bust and never came to fruition.

Jack Kelly: It's All in the "Game"! :)

Howdy!

In August 1963, Jack Kelly was strutting his stuff as a song-and-dance man in Anderson, Indiana. While JK was hoofing it in the Hoosier state, he also showed off his fashion sense. And, I have the pictures to prove it! :)

While the quality of these photos from my Kellection isn't the best--they are faded with age and look like they were cut from a photo album--they do provide a rare, candid look at JK as he prepares for his role in the musical comedy The Pajama Game at the Geeting Summer Theatre.

This 1963 production of The Pajama Game was presented by the Madison County Dramatic Players, a theater company which exists to this day and is now known as The Mainstage Theatre. Their shows were originally held on land owned by the Geeting family of Anderson. The Geeting "theater" was first a tent (which kept falling down) and later a pole barn. According to a 2009 article about the Players in the Anderson Herald Bulletin, "Cast and audience alike had to contend with stifling heat and humidity, insects, wandering animals and the occasional thunder, lightning and hail. On a tin roof."

In the same article, a Geeting crew member recalled, "At one performance [in the barn], the electricity went out. We were about finished with the play, so we pulled cars up to the building and shined their headlights in. It had canvas sides, so that we finished the play.”

Despite their humble home base, the Players dreamed big, and for a time tried to feature professional actors in their productions. However, they were able to attract only two "name" performers--the ill-fated Frances Farmer and JK--before they ran out of funds. 

But, the Players went all-out with The Pajama Game. Linda J. Alexander notes in A Maverick Life: The Jack Kelly Story that The Pajama Game was the company's "largest cast show" to date (including "twenty-two speaking parts", "a twelve-member chorus" and "six dancers") and that JK was "a local hit" in the popular show.

Indeed, the local paper gave plenty of publicity to the erstwhile Maverick, including a lengthy article which was primarily about his wife, Donna.

 

In the news clipping below, a jovial JK is shown trying on a jacket he will wear in The Pajama Game:

The caption reads: "TAKES TIME OUT--Jack Kelly took time out from rigorous rehearsal schedules to get outfitted for his role as 'Henzie' in the up coming musical comedy 'Pajama Game' that opens Monday night for a six-day run at the Geeting Summer Theatre. Jay Russell, left, helps 'Bart Maverick' into a sports coat that he will wear in his comedy lead with the Madison County Dramatic Players." 

JK's "comedy lead" in this production of The Pajama Game is actually named "Vernon Hines", who opens the show with the title song. Hines is a time-study man at the "Sleep-Tite" pajama factory in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where the workers are threatening to strike if they don't receive a 7.5 cent raise. "Hinesey" is in love with the factory owner's secretary and becomes very jealous when he suspects her of flirting with the new factory superintendent. 

The Pajama Game originally premiered on Broadway in 1954 and was adapted into a film starring Doris Day and John Raitt in 1957. The show's score includes such now-classic hits as "Hey There", "Steam Heat" and "Hernando's Hideaway". 

"Hines" has several numbers in the show. Unfortunately, we don't have a recording of Jack Kelly's performance in The Pajama Game. But, to give you an idea of what one of "Hinesey's" songs sounded like, here's a video featuring Eddie Foy, Jr. (who played the character in both the Broadway and film versions) singing "Pajama Game/Racing With the Clock" with the ensemble:

And, here are two more shots of JK having a ball as he chooses his character's wardrobe. Below, with Jay Russell: 

And, all by his stylin' self:

Incidentally, in addition to picking out his wardrobe and his "rigorous rehearsal schedules" for The Pajama Game, JK was able to squeeze in some golf during his stay in Anderson. :)

Read more about JK's adventures in summer stock here. 

BREAKING NEWS: Look What I Just Found! :)

Hello All!

We'll return to 1960 and Hidden Valley shortly, but in the meantime, here's a fantabulous Jack Kelly performance from 1963. It's "Shadow of a Man", an episode originally broadcast on Kraft Mystery Theater which co-stars Broderick Crawford, Ed Begley and many other recognizable faces. By the way, if the names of JK's and Crawford's characters sound familiar, they were also used by Fred McMurray and Edward G. Robinson in the 1944 Billy Wilder film Double Imdemnity. Apart from the insurance investigator angle, though, "Shadow of a Man" has little in common with that famous film noir. It's still a blast to watch--enjoy! :)




 BUT WAIT--THERE'S MORE!!!

Bloodhound Bartista is on a hot streak tonight. I also found JK's segment ("La Canasta") from the episodic 1956 Mexican film Canasta De Cuentos Mexicanos (A Basket of Mexican Tales). In "La Canasta" ("The Basket"), based on a story by B. Traven of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre fame, a clever Mexican basketweaver outsmarts a gringo couple. JK's wife is played by Mari Blanchard, with whom he later co-starred in She Devil. The clip is in Spanish without subtitles, but JK is muy bueno in any language. :)

 

G'Day, Maverick! :)

Howdy Everyone!

I'm sorry I haven't posted much lately. I experienced a computer upgrade that tangled up some of my files, and then had some internet connection problems.

Thankfully, it looks like things are getting back to normal, so let's take a look at Maverick as it was viewed Down Under--in Australia, that is.

I recently found a trove of articles about Maverick and JK from The Australian Women's Weekly, a magazine published from 1933 until 1982.

In 1959, the publication pondered the enormous popularity of TV westerns, including Maverick:

"...At times it seems as if every man in America wishes he had a gun and could travel, and every female longs for a man who does.

Why should this be? What is it these western heroes have in common? Why should every man, woman and child in America suddenly be crazy about them?

Obviously a lot of different types of actors can succeed in westerns. The heroes come in all shapes, sizes, looks, and talents. What makes the public love them all must be inherent in the western story itself.

...Is it the costume?

In part it certainly is. If a man has any muscle at all, those tight shirts and trousers show it. More than that, the costumes make a man look older and wiser. Take, for instance, Jack Kelly, who stars as Bret Maverick's TV-brother, Bart.

As Kelly's wife once said: 'When Jack puts on that Maverick outfit he takes on maturity; he looks older. And women want to see a man, not a little boy.

'Jack and the rest of these heroes represent a kind of manhood and mature sex appeal we haven't seen on the screen for a long time. In fact, maybe Hollywood's mistake in the past ten years was trying to make heroes out of kids who looked about 15.'"


"...Is it because woman are sick of too much civilisation and long for the strong silent man of the prairies?

Probably in part. Roy Huggins, a TV producer with considerable experience in westerns, believes that one of things women find attractive is that [the heroes are] lone men pitted against the world.

They ride into town alone at the beginning of the show, fight their battles, charm the women, and ride out alone again.

Viewers who have been watching the TV western from the beginning may remember that in the first few episodes Cheyenne violated this rule; Clint Walker had a sidekick. When Huggins was called in to work on the show, one of the first rules he laid down was that the sidekick had to go.

From Cheyenne Huggins has moved on to Maverick, where he has created quite a different type of hero--also a loner and undomesticated, but in a much lighter vein.

Women viewers surely have the feeling that whereas Cheyenne would protect them, they would have to protect themselves against Maverick. [B27 - ?!]

After dealing with two such different types, Huggins decided the secret of the western's popularity is not so much its hero as its atmosphere.

'The great thing about westerns,' he says, 'is that nobody ever works. You never see anybody building a house or ploughing a field.

'If the hero does want a job, with some vague kind of duties which seem to be mostly riding horses around the ranch and kidding around with the pretty daughter of the family, nobody ever asks him what's his social security number, what union does he belong to, where are his letters of reference.

'This is the American dream of total, carefree mobility. The hero rides into town, gets off his horse, and walks into the saloon--all the men in town seem to spend all day in the saloon--and everybody in the audience says, 'Lord, what a wonderful time to live...''"

Of course, the last original episode of Maverick aired in the US in April 1962. But, the series' final season didn't air in Australia until that autumn. The Australian Women's Weekly noted then:

"One of TV's hardy perennials, the western spoof series Maverick, is currently showing a new-old mix of shows here.

When the series began filming in America about six years ago, Maverick was a western with a lot of difference.

Whimsical and sometimes satirical, it chronicled the adventures of two brothers--Bret (James Garner) and Bart Maverick (Jack Kelly)--in the Old West. But these boys didn't go in for gunplay. They got out of trouble, often poker-provoked , with fast talkin' and not fast drawin'.

They also quoted their old pappy: 'It isn't how you play the game that counts, it's winning.' And, 'If at first you don't succeed, try something else.'

The party went on for two years and then--trouble.

James Garner left the series after bitterly fought legal battles with the studio, Warner Brothers. Jack Kelly carried on, and acquired various other 'relations' (including Roger Moore as Cousin Beau). But, Maverick has just never been the same without that Garner oomph. [B27 - Some fans think it's just fine with the Kelly oomph! ;-)]

Consequently, the show now running in Australia features some new shows (with Kelly) and some reruns (with Garner). "

Incidentally, the TV columnist for The Australian Women's Weekly later noted that "Ben Casey" met "Bart Maverick" when a certain film aired on Australian TV in 1963:

"Two of today's TV stars, Dr. Casey (Vincent Edwards) and Mr. Maverick (Jack Kelly)--were struggling young actors in 1955. Then they both appeared in a thriller called The Night Holds Terror. Jack is the goodie and Vince is the oh-so-baddie and this (fascinating) film will be [network] TCN9's 'Monday Movie' on April 15."

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And now, a little birdie has told me that Linda J. Alexander, the author of the eagerly awaited biography A Maverick Life: The Jack Kelly Story, will discuss the book on Saturday, November 5, at 10:00 am ET, on the "On the Grid" internet show. Click here to join in the fun! And, keep watching "TDS" for more info
about this soon-to-be released book! :)

(Clip art courtesy "ClipartOf.com")