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This week: Stars for Sale
The star business is a money spinner. About every mass circulation newspaper or magazine has its star column and its professional star gazer. The public, they say, demands them - and anyway, they add, it's only harmless fun. But is it so harmless? Man Alive tonight examines some British astrologers, their craft, the addicts, and doctors, who maintain that astrology has the power not only to amuse - but kill.

Contributors

Reporter:
Christopher Brasher
Reporter:
Angela Huth
Reporter:
Jeremy James
Reporter:
John Percival
Reporter:
Trevor Philpott
Reporter/editor:
Desmond Wilcox
Editor:
Bill Morton

with The George Mitchell Choir.

(Dai Francis is appearing in "The Black and White Minstrel Show" at the Victoria Palace, London; Vanessa Howard is appearing in "On The Level" at The Saville Theatre, London)

Contributors

Singers:
The George Mitchell Choir
Musical direction and arrangements:
Robert de Cormier
Soloist:
Dai Francis
Soloist:
Margaret Savage
Soloist:
Julia Whitaker
Soloist:
Ted Darling
Soloist:
Carol Hall
Soloist:
Vanessa Howard
Words read by:
Julian Glover
Staged by:
Douglas Squires
Producer:
Travers Thorneloe

A Bob Hope comedy.
Starring Bob Hope, Paulette Goddard
with Edward Arnold

There are many hilarious complications when a stockbroker makes a bet with his business associates that he will tell the truth and nothing but the truth for a twenty-four-hour period.

Contributors

Director:
Elliott Nugent
Producer:
Arthur Hornblow Jr.
Screenplay:
Don Hartman
Screenplay:
Ken Englund
From the play by:
James Montgomery
From the novel by:
Frederic S. Isham
Steve Bennett:
Bob Hope
Gwenn Saunders:
Paulette Goddard
Ralston:
Edward Arnold
Tommy Van Deusen:
Leif Erickson
Dick Donnelly:
Glenn Anders
Samuel:
Willie Best
Linda Graham:
Helen Vinson
Mr. Bishop:
Grant Mitchell
Mrs. Donnelly:
Rose Hobart
Mr. James Van Deusen:
Clarence Kolb
Mrs. Ralston:
Mary Forbes

Presenting the veteran Chicago tenor-saxophone star Bud Freeman and Alex Welsh and His Band.
Introduced by Humphrey Lyttelton.

Contributors

Saxophonist:
Bud Freeman
Musicians:
Alex Welsh and His Band
Presenter:
Humphrey Lyttelton
Producer:
Terry Henebery

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