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Where Adams is brusque and businesslike, Persons is completely amiable, can always find time for the human touch. Where Adams-by virtue of his four years in the New Hampshire Statehouse -is "Governor" to all but a few close associates, Persons is "Jerry" to nearly all Washington, "Burt" to his family, and "Slick" to old Army friends. (There is a dispute about whether the "Slick" came from the stuff he put on his hair or from the smooth way he handled Congressmen as an Army legislative liaison man.) Where Adams was President Eisenhower's closest professional colleague, Major General...
Despite its glittering cast and artier-than-thou approach, the show now and again came slowly out of the tube. Not without lively spots (notably a duet of Baby, It's Cold Outside, incongruously teaming Rock Hudson and Mae West, and a song-and-dance routine by Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas), it was better organized than in recent years, but still prone to flat jokes and awkward entrances and exits. All the same, with such old-guard purists as Clark Gable, John Wayne and Gary Grant helping the cause of motion pictures, Producer Jerry Wald figured that...
...aide), the film gets under way as Commander Clark Gable, U.S.N.. loses his submarine in Japan's Bungo Strait. Desked in Honolulu, he strikes for another command and sails for revenge. But there is a hitch: the command that Gable gets had previously been ticketed to Lieut. Burt Lancaster, who stays aboard as Gable's executive officer and makes no bones about his disappointment. What's more, the crew is in Lancaster's corner. When Gable pours on the drill, they fall to without a grumble, but when he ducks a Japanese submarine, they mutter...
Blue Denim (by James Leo Herlihy and William Noble) embeds a troubled teen-age sex drama inside a sociological roundwork. The going-on-16 son of fond but unhelpful parents, Arthur Bartley (Burt Brinckerhoff) takes refuge, when at lome, in a basement hideaway, in a world of beer and draw poker with a pal, of fledgling sex with a professor's daughter. The girl becomes pregnant. Arthur tries to signal to his parents but cannot, then uses a forged check to pay for an abortion. In a suspenseful last act, everything suddenly comes out well-in fact, a little...
...citizens of Haverhill, Mass. had shrugged off the motion picture as a flickering freak. Then an enterprising young (22) junkman named Louis Burt Mayer came to town and laid out $600 as a down payment on a onetime burlesque house. Mayer hid the shoddy past of his theater with a coat of white paint, installed an organ, and dug up a religious film called From the Manger to the Cross. His opening was a socko success. The lines of ticket buyers taught L. B. Mayer a lesson he never forgot: Americans want simple, clean entertainment...