Word: cinderella
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This luminous little legend, so much like the Western Cinderella story and yet so much more, has been made into a slow (perhaps too slow) and stately motion picture by the same Japanese company that produced Rashomon, Ugetsu and Gate of Hell. The film has the quality of endless resonance that distinguishes the true myth. Like a gong, it is small in itself, but the sound of it carries a very long way. The reverberations of the culminating symbol: the tree of life that bears the fruit of death, a death whose other name is love. For Western movie goers...
...Duchess insists that hers is no Cinderella story; she and her editorial assistants have dusted off an impressive number of highborn Maryland and Virginia kin-Montagues and Warfields so snootily Southern that they called the Union Army "Mr. Lincoln's men." This family tree spreads its shadow over the artless stories told by Bessiewallis* about grandmother's "victoria," her first sausage curls, her posh uncles like S. Davies Warfield, who grandly inserted a notice in the newspapers that because of "the appalling catastrophe now devastating Europe" (it was 1915), he would "forgo the ball that he might otherwise...
...upcoming specialties will be topped by Rodgers and Hammerstein's first TV original: a 90-minute musicollaboration on Cinderella, starring Julie (My Fair Lady) Andrews. Ford Star Jubilee will hire Cole Porter. Shirley Jones, Gordon MacRae. Dorothy Dandridge, Dolores Gray. George Sanders. Louis Armstrong to salute Composer Porter's 40 years of songwriting. Ford will also adapt Sidney Kingsley's Men in White and showcase MGM's The Wizard of Oz. Ed Murrow's, See It Now will include cathode reports from the Suez. Asia. Russia and South America, and a 1½hr. documentary...
...Juliet, the Lunts, making their TV debuts, in The Great Sebastians, Gene Kelly and Fredric March in Front Page, a Roy Rogers rodeo. NBC will also give opera, ballet and concert-hall music their biggest boost as popular art forms with the Sadler's Wells Ballet's Cinderella, Puccini's La Boheme, Verdi's La Traviata, Beethoven's Fidelio, the world premiere of Prokofiev's War and Peace and Sol Hurok's Music Festival. Producer Max Liebman will try to develop Comic Buddy Hackett as a top comedian with a half-hour comedy...
...traditional designs. The hottest sellers in Dallas this year are Georgian. Colonial and even houses with French Provincial trims, but all are modified to give the kind of light, cool living that buyers demand in the Texas climate. In Califor nia, the swing to traditional houses has brought back "Cinderella" and "Storybook" houses with leaded-glass windows and dormers...