Word: director
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Leaves Canceled. In Buffalo, U.S.O. Director Mrs. Odessa Shipley thought she knew just how to entertain 230 visiting sailors from H.M.S. Scarborough, was terribly surprised when 1,000 tea bags went untouched...
Black Orpheus (French). Director Marcel Camus (no kin to Novelist-Playwright Albert) has fashioned an impressive, poetic film from an adaptation of the Orpheus legend. The unknown Negro cast, the graceful transformation of the original, and the breathtaking image presented of life as a tropical carnival earned it the 1959 Grand Prix at Cannes...
...Despite shortcomings, including a hero who is pretty much an overgrown boy scout, Director William Wyler's $15 million film version of Major General Lew Wallace's Biblical bestseller (1880) is the most expensive and the best screen spectacle ever produced...
...Magician (Swedish). Writer-Director Ingmar Bergman mixes his murky symbols into a witch's brew that, though stirred with confusion, is well worth sampling...
Christmas Midnight Mass (NBC, midnight-1:25 a.m.). From Manhattan's St. Patrick's Cathedral, the telecast will be narrated by the Very Rev. Timothy J. Flynn, director of the office of Radio and TV of the Archdiocese of New York...