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Snooker Championship The Semi-finals Final day
This morning the first semi-final is played to a conclusion. DAVID VINE introduces live coverage.
The first film in today's Double-Bill, starring
Katharine Hepburn , Cary Grant
Following the death of her French mother in Marseilles, Sylvia and her father head for London, where they join forces with. confidence-trickster Jimmy Monkley. Sylvia cuts her hair and poses as a boy - but this causes problems when the group go on tour as a pierrot concert party. This unusual romance has a special quality created by the sexual ambiguities provided by Hepburn's dual role.
Screenplay by GLADYS UNGER
JOHN COLLIER and MORTIMER OFFNER Produced by PANDRO S. BERMAN Directed by GEORGE CUKOR
Films: page 12
(Repeat)
starring
Judy Garland , James Mason
Judy Garland made a triumphant return to the screen in the central role of the singer whose fame grows as that of her actor husband declines. Mason gives a comparably fine and immensely supportive performance as the alcoholic actor. The superbly controlled direction, memorable songs and fine character performances combine to make this classic movie entertainment by and about Hollywood.
Screenplay by MOSS HART Produced by SIDNEY LUFT Directed by GEORGE CUKOR Films: page 12
The Semi-finals Final day
By now one finalist is known. DAVID VINE reports with the result of the first semi-final, and introduces coverage of the second match which continued this afternoon. Commentators
TED LOWE , JACK KARNEHM
CLIVE EVERTON and JOHN PULMAN
Reports on Ceefax
Book Pot Black, 11.95 from bookshops
The sixth of a series of seven programmes which examine birth, death and resurrection through the eyes and experiences of handicapped people, their families and those who 'come into contact with them.
6:Shirley Nolan
Shirley Nolan 's fight to save the life of her son Anthony, who suffered from a bone marrow deficiency, has resulted in a medical research trust being set up which will save the lives of many people. While Shirley accepts that her son's short life means normal life for many, she cannot understand why he had to suffer in order that others might live.
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CLENROY OAKLEY and NICK ROBSON Film cameraman COLIN MUNN Film sound colin MARCH
Film editor MICHAEL HACKING Producer JIM MURRAY
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The Semi-finals Final day
DAVID VINE introduces highlights and the latest news of the second semi-final from the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield.
' I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.' (MARTIN LUTHER KING, 1963) The highly-acclaimed American dramatisation, in three parts, of the life of Dr Martin Luther King. starring Paul Winfield as King
Cicely Tyson as Coretta Scott King 1: The early years in the career of the great American Civil Rights leader, from the first meeting with his future wife, Coretta, through his involvement with the Montgomery bus strike, to the beginning of the conflict with the all-powerful J. Edgar Hoover.
Paul Winfield ... not only looks and sounds right, echoing the extraordinary dignity and power of King's oratory, but he suggested a credible godsend with doubts as well as certainties proceeding from inner strength. (THE DAILY TELEGRAPH) Produced by PAUL MASI. ANSKY
Written and directed by ABBY MANN
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rhe Semi-finals
One finalist is known; the other will emerge after this evening's nine-frame session. DAVID VINE introduces highlights as the Championship approaches its climax.
{Coverage of the Final begins tomorrow at 2.20 pm)
with Anne Nightingale and David Hepworth
In the studio this week Wilko Johnson , Scars
Director TOM CORCORAN
Producer MICHAEL APPLETON
