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'Heller' Episode 62

This is an article from Look Magazine June 21, 1960. 
"The Star Stands In"

On the TV stage, Connors is the embodiment of  intensity as he works out his role. 
"What I feel may be honest, but it has to look as well as be good," he says.  "A good actor gets the audience involved.  He brings the audience up to a point, then makes it feel the part from there on." 

In a recent rehearsal, the actor playing the villain reported sick.  Connors read role (above) to help Gigi Perreau prepare for her close-ups.  Later, he said that, for the first time, he had felt self-conscience about acting.  He said he knew onlookers had seen the well rehearse heavy (Peter Whitney) do the scene.  In his eagerness he thought he had hammed it up.

'Heller'



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