Word: film
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...film's failure stems mainly from a futile attempt to blend Actor Webb's amusingly smug, know-it-all characterization of Mr. Belvedere into a story intended to stir up some emotional warmth. The result is seldom comic and never moving; it leaves Webb without much material worthy of a Belvedere and the movie's would-be warmth without the kind of character that might ignite...
...Terence Rattigan stuck fairly closely to the facts of the Archer-Shee case, while rigging them skillfully for theatrical effect. In the movie version, Scripters Rattigan and Anatole de Grunwald stick too closely to the play. As a result, despite some superior dialogue and top-drawer British acting, the film plods along with more patience than it is likely to find in U.S. moviegoers...
...Breen is overlooking the place where his censorship could be most effective, the ordinary Hollywood film...
...Mass I saw a pink donkey with green ears, standing on its head. I hasten to add that it was on one of those lively scarves worn by young ladies. In other moments of distraction I have observed . . . Mahjong players, Hawaiian dancing girls, Sheiks and camels, not to mention film stars and dogs. I would suggest that the Spanish mantilla might be more seemly and beautiful...
...show of 1950 seemed to be the Academy Awards presentation itself at Hollywood's RKO Pantages Theater. A day before, Daily Variety had filled its front page with a completely accurate poll takers' forecast of the big awards. No one was surprised at the absence of foreign films or players among the major winners. Unlike last year, when Britain's Hamlet carried the day, none had been nominated. But the Academy's directors found it in their hearts to create a special award for Vittorio De Sica's The Bicycle Thief as the best foreign...