by Steve Nadel; TV Photo Story, April 1967
Judy Carne and Peter Deuel smile and smile for the cameras. But what's going on backstage? If you've been watching TV's Love on a Rooftop — and it appears that most viewers have made the show one of their favorites — you know that David and Julie Willis are as much in love with each other as two people could possibly be — regardless of the typical newlywed problems that often seem to threaten their bliss.
The Rooftop stars, Peter Deuel and Judy Carne, are two of the most likeable people you would ... Read More
Category: 1971 and Earlier
June 19, 2013Laura
TV Star Parade, April 1967
This surprising turn of events could easily result from the newest twosome in Hollywood. For Sally Field, who was Gidget on television a while back, and Peter Deuel, who enacted the role of her brother-in-law in that now-defunct series, have discovered each other in a big way.
Which is all the more astonishing, considering they worked together for a whole season and nothing sparked. Well, nothing much.
"Oh, we went to one hockey game while we were working together on Gidget," Peter Deuel told us nonchalantly, "but that was all."
Then he grinned in amazement at himself and said, ... Read More
June 19, 2013Laura
Photoplay, April 1970
Love really happens quickly to Kim Darby. When just about everybody was betting on her romance with Pete Deuel, her Generation co-star, Kim married James Westmoreland on February 6. Talk about whirlwind courtships! The two met at a dinner party just two-and-a-half weeks before the wedding. The party was hosted by Michael Anderson, Jr., Jim's close friend since the days they worked together on ABC-TV's The Monroes.
Said Jim: "Kim and I had total rapport at once. We have everything in common. If you love someone, you can love her as much in three weeks as you can ... Read More
June 19, 2013Laura
Photoplay Album, 1968
He played a young husband in Love on a Rooftop, but in real life he's about as eligible a bachelor as there is around. A native of Penfield, N.Y., he comes from a long line of doctors and had expected to be one himself until a campus production of The Rose Tattoo gave him an acting bug which even his M.D. father couldn't cure.
Dr. Deuel did prescribe medicine, however; he advised Pete to quit college (St. Lawrence University) and enroll instead at the American Theatre Wing in New York. From there he toured with a Shakespeare company, ... Read More
June 19, 2013Laura
Press Packet for a 'A Time for Giving,' 1969
Young Pete Duel believes that the long-awaited breakthrough in his acting career has happened with his starring role in Joseph Levine's presentation of the Frederick Brisson Production, A Time for Giving, the new Technicolor comedy — opening at the Theatre.
"If I don't make it as Walter, the angry idealist who says what he thinks and lets the chips fall where they may," Duel explained recently, "then I'll never make it. Where The Graduate made an important actor of Dusty Hoffman, I naturally hope the same can happen for me in this movie.
"It's ... Read More
June 18, 2013Laura
TV Radio Mirror, May 1967
Peter Deuel and Judy Carne are two riproaring individualists — types who make producers nervous with their love for speed, motorcycles, fastcars, wild dancing; types who get their kicks just living every minute. The whole idea is to enjoy, revel in and relish life. That's just what Peter and Judy do, and they enjoy doing it together on the set of ABC-TV's Love On A Rooftop or racing around the countryside on their leaping motorcycles.
Why, they enjoy each other's company so much they even enjoy fighting. As Peter puts it, "We have some pretty spicy ... Read More
June 18, 2013Laura
and with it a personal statement
by Cecil Smith; TV Times (Los Angeles), 1971
Television is mostly by committee. One of its glaring weaknesses is its inability to accommodate the artist who wants to make a personal statement on film, which is about the only kind of film worth a damn.
Maybe the closest to this that has happened lately is in the six episode mini-series The Psychiatrist, which stars Roy Thinnes (on the cover) and Luther Adler and opens Wednesday night as the fourth short series on NBC's Four-in-One. The statement maker, in this case, is 28-year-old Jerrold Freedman.
Freedman is a large, ... Read More
June 18, 2013Laura