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Dr. Ben Casey is played by Vin-
who is as intense
about being a good actor as Ben |
Casey is about being a good doctor.
Vince arrives at the studio at 7
in the morning and leaves at 7
cent Edwards,
in the evening.
Vince Edwards, who is thirty and
single, has been working at being |
until he was selected to play Dr.
Ben Casey he was an unknown, |
who just hadn't received any breaks. |
the University of: Hawaii.
| viewers think is too severe, was | pital”
copied from Dr. Max Warner at
Los Angeles County Hospital. Vince
| followed him around for two weeks,
studying every move he made.
The show is as authentic as James
{an actor for some time. He was a E. Moser, creator of the SHOW; could
| classmate of Grace Kelly, Anne Ban- possibly make it without using real |
croft and John Cassavetes at the patients and real doctors. He spent |
American Academy, New York. Up | three years in resear rch. He was
responsible for the authenticity of |
“Medic” and “Dragnet.”
| The different
He is 6 feet 2, weighs 195, has {set-up permanently
hazel-green eyes and brown hair. | Studios. The set is a copy of the | babies a month are born in the L. A. wedding rings. By the time they
| He was born in Brooklyn and was |Los Angeles County Hospital, one County
a star swimmer at Ohio State and third size to scale.
A number of viewers wrote rec-| Up until recently there had been | working ag actresses or
Some ‘of the (ed because of complications.
Netters insisted there was nothing |
show they think they |to lose and a heart massage should
have been tried. Nurse Alice Rod- |
Maggie reguez agreed with the writing doc- |
|
His medical manner, which some | ently when the
was referred to as having | during the filming of the show. | girls said that after acting’ in the
4,000 beds.
was that large. A quick check with [serve the Navy. His post as tech- | | might havk: made good nurses.
the L.A. County Hospital revealed | nical director is
that there actually are 3,898 beds. | haired nurse, Alice Rodriguez, wife | Graham of | the Ben Casey show is |tors but the writers insisted for
They wouldn't want to but the hos- of a surgeon. You can see her each, | the real Mife wife of Sam. Jaffe, the sake of the story the decision |
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THE DALLAS POST, THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 1962
| pital agreed they could accommo- plays the role of the scrub nurse.
date 4,000 persons if necessary. The neurosurgeons are retained Casey's superior.
The Los Angeles County Hospital by the preiducers in an advisory |
lis the largest in the U.S. in one | capacity.
building. Cook County in Chicago, | ~The nursks on .the show are all |
| Bellevue in New York and Charity | | selected anid given special’ lessons |
in New Orleans are larger, but not | on how to gict like nurses. They are |
|in one building. A total of 1,500 | allowed to | wear no jewelry except!
| Casey's decisions. One
{came recently, when a
hospital scenes are
in the Desilu
Hospital and there
are | complete thieir ~ training it is diffi- |
| 20,000 outpatients a week.
“Ben Casey hos- | a doctor on the set at all times | working as nurses.
They said no hospital Dr. Max Warner left recently to |Ben Casey
filled by dark- | Betty Awkerson, the Dr.
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_ Watching the show on Monday doctor.
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