FROM BIG SCREEN TO SMALL - MOVIES ADAPTED TO TV SHOWS

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Across
  1. 4. in 1960 Doris Day moves to country with college prof. husband David Niven; they struggle to new surroundings, much like the 1965 married couple in tv version with Mark Miller in the Niven role
  2. 6. 1949 tells story of 1942 bomb group Gen. Gregory Peck has to straighten out; he has the same task in the 1964 version, tho the Peck character is killed in action after one season
  3. 9. 1943 film with Cary Grant as shady gambler who cons Laraine Day into letting him run a "charity" casino night for war relief on his ship, which is in hock. TV version has same character in 1959 but honest & running gambling ship, Ross Martin plays sidekick not in movie
  4. 10. Henry Fonda starred in the movie version of the WWII Navy film; Roger Smith played Fonda's role on TV
Down
  1. 1. 1973 Harvard Law students struggle with new pressures, romantic woes & Prof. Kingsfield; 1978 has same characters, same problems & even the same Prof. Kingsfield (John Houseman)
  2. 2. in 1947 widow Gene Tierney moves from London to seaside town only to find ghost of sea capt. Rex Harrison haunts her house; in 1968 Hope Lange has the same problem with Edward Mulhare in TV version
  3. 3. widowed homemaker leaves with son to pursue singing career, winds up waitressing, living in AZ motel in 1970s - title of tv version iss mch shorter
  4. 5. 1967 movie with Rod Taylor as mgr of upscale NO establishment owned by Melvyn Douglas who is behind the times; 1983 version is transported to SF as a primetime soap opera with Connie Sellecca playing added character
  5. 7. 1953 Western has John Wayne as army scout who protects widow and son from apaches; the 1967 version has no widow & son but is otherwise much the same; Noah Beery Jr plays sidekick Buffalo Baker
  6. 8. it's 1959 CA & the smitten tomboyish 16 yr old is drawn to the surfing crowd & handsome surfer; in 1965 nothing much has changed except for the actors & the girl's father being a widower rather than happily married in the movie & her speaking to the audience so we know what she's thinking.