JACK PAAR TONIGHT: THREE REMARKABLE WOMEN {JANE GOODALL, ETHEL KENNEDY, MARY MARTIN} (TV)
Summary
In this special, Jack Paar interviews Ethel Kennedy, English primatologist/ethologist Dr. Jane Goodall and her husband Baron Hugo van Lawick, and musical theater star Mary Martin. First, Paar talks with Ethel Kennedy, the widow of Robert Kennedy, in her home at Hyannisport, Massachusetts. During the interview, Ethel Kennedy comments on the following topics, among others: her public image; her nationality; whether or not she plans to remarry in the near future; her reputation for being fearless; the fact that her children are allowed to play on the roof; and the accomplishments of her eleven children. This segment includes footage of Ethel Kennedy playing touch football and tennis with Jack Paar and her children at Hickery Hill, Kennedy and her family sailing and demonstrating their nautical expertise, Kennedy driving her own car pool, the Kennedys ice skating at Rockefeller Center with children from Bedford-Stuyvesant, a charity event at Hickery Hill, and Ethel Kennedy eating a meal with her children. Next, Jack Paar travels to Gombe, Africa, to visit Dr. Jane Goodall, her husband Baron Hugo van Lawick, and their three-and-a-half-year-old son named Grub. During this interview, Dr. Goodall and her husband comment on the following topics, among others: how Grub reacted to the concept of burying a dead animal when he was in England; the way in which they protect their son from animals; Grub's first English sentence; the fact that Grub could imitate animals before he spoke English; the child's ability to speak Swahili; his fear of chickens; the security measures they use at night; the fact that they are unarmed; Goodall's studies of chimpanzees; and the importance of the cassette stereo in their vehicle. During this segment, Grub creates some animal sounds and Goodall demonstrates how she sang her notes into her tape recorder when Grub was a baby. Throughout this segment there is footage of babboons and chimpanzees, and Grub playing separately in the wild. For the third interview, Paar travels to Brazil to talk to Broadway legend Mary Martin. Included in this segment is footage of Martin riding on horseback, the Japanese bridge near her home, samples of her needlepoint work, a tour of her house, Martin entertaining her guests with a dog act that features her French poodle, the studio in which she paints and designs clothing, Martin's chicken farm, her clothing store in Annapolis, and Brazilian women modeling Martin's fashions. During the interview, the actress comments on whether or not she will return to the theater, the unfounded rumors that she is ill, finally having electricity in the house, and her early days of auditioning. Martin also tells a touching story about Oscar Hammerstein II. Commercials deleted.
Cataloging of this program was made possible by The Marc Haas and Helen Hotze Haas Foundation, 1997.
Details
- NETWORK: ABC
- DATE: January 20, 1973 10:00 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 0:54:30
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T:37238
- GENRE: Talk/Interviews
- SUBJECT HEADING: Actors; Babboons; Biography; Brazil; Chimpanzees; Ethology
- SERIES RUN: ABC - TV, 1973
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Jack Paar … Host, Interviewer
- Goodall, Jane (See also: Lawick-Goodall, Jane) … Guest
- Ethel Kennedy … Guest
- Mary Martin … Guest
- van Lawick, Hugo … Guest