starring Debbie Reynolds, Eddie Fisher, Adolphe Menjou

Two of Hollywood's favourite young lovers, Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher, star in this week's Saturday Cinema which derives its comedy mileage from the misunderstandings which follow an out-of-work sales-girl's kindly act in taking care of an abandoned baby.
Polly Parish (Debbie Reynolds) has just been sacked by Merlin's Department Store when she finds the little bundle left out on the steps of an orphanage. The orphanage matron is firmly convinced that Polly is the mother - and so, for that matter, is practically everyone else. One so convinced is Dan (Eddie Fisher), son of Merlin's boss, and he gives Polly her job back...
Veteran comedy director Norman Taurog cleverly manipulates this amusing story which is, in essence, a remake of "Bachelor Mother" made in 1939 with Ginger Rogers and David Niven in the leading roles.
The film was produced at the time of the much publicised real-life romance between Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher, and it also stars the late Adolphe Menjou as J.B. Merlin, the suave, sophisticated boss of the department store in which most of the action takes place.

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Two hours of live coverage from Lord's
Also in Grandstand
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with Percy Thrower at Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire
A look at some climbing plants on the old buildings at Stanton Harcourt, and the rose garden behind the Manor Farm.
from the Midlands
Percy Thrower writes on page 30
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Great Zoos of the world
A grand tour with Anthony Smith

Set in the cactus landscape familiar as a backdrop to countless Western films, the Arizona Sonora Desert Museum reflects a current trend in the zoo world towards specialisation. Started as recently as 1952, this is a living museum that shows only the wildlife of the desert.
That many people hate and fear snakes is an established fact, but every year a quarter of a million people come here and bravely gaze, through glass, at the world's most complete collection of desert reptiles, cleverly displayed in 'living dioramas.' An underground tunnel gives a close-up view of the kit-fox, the North American badger, and other animals that burrow to escape the daytime heat. And there are one or two surprises, for even in a desert the otter finds somewhere to swim.
This is a zoo that blends with its surroundings to such an extent that some of the exhibits are 'volunteers' who find the softer living in the enclosures preferable to the rugged life outside.
from the South and West
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followed by The Weather
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by R.H. Mottram
Dramatised in four parts by Lennox Phillips

Georges went to the war. Unable to communicate with him, Madeleine asked Skene to look for him. She has bought a restaurant in the hope Georges will visit it
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A series of film reports by Trevor Philpott

Cannonball Selby is a coach driver. But he is very much more than that. He is a man who makes or breaks holidays. For his forty-four passengers, he's the man in control of the most precious week in the year. He's guide, adviser, mechanic, comedian, father confessor; and first, last, and all the time, Cannonball is a business man.
The Philpott File travels 1,000 miles with Cannonball - on one of his fun-filled trips from Leeds to Land's End - and finds that handling a forty-five-foot coach is one thing; but it's handling forty-four passengers, all after a good time, that needs the delicate touch.

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from The Talk of the Town

Kenneth Williams introduces
Tonight's star from Switzerland, Daniel Remy
from America, Marian Montgomery
Ravic and Babs
from Israel, The High Windows

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Gerald Harrison talks to boys and girls at Wilmslow and Hull.

"Sportsmanship is being kind to other people and being friendly with them and not being rude". (8-year-old boy)

Question: "How much do you think grown-ups - adults, when they've left school - are good sports?"
Answer: "I suppose it depends, on the person, their education and on their upbringing". (12-year-old boy)

(from the North)
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In which about 100 people of varied ages, outlook, and opinions, listen to-and freely discuss-the poems of Spike Hawkins. After the discussion he gives his reactions to some of the comments made.
Somewhere among the audience: A. Alvarez, Cyril Connolly, Edward Lucie-Smith,
George MacBeth, Roger McGough, Julian Mitchell, Peter Porter
Referee, Paddy Feeny
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Late-Night Line-Up's Saturday diversion which this week features Orange Bicycle
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Starring Ray Milland, Marjorie Reynolds

There was a team of formidable talents ranged behind this thriller, an ingenious tale of spies and treachery set in World War Two in England. Fritz Lang, of Metropolis and Dr. Mabuse fame, directed from a screenplay by Seton I. Miller, an Oscar winner who scripted Scarface. Miller's script for tonight's film conveys faithfully the special atmosphere of the Grahame Greene novel on which it was based. Ray Milland, reverting to his original British nationality, plays a young man whose troubles begin when he wins a cake as prize in a raffle at a garden fete organised in aid of something called 'The Mothers of Free Nations.'
In a minor part, Dan Duryea offers an early sketch of his later famous cold-eyed killer.