Word: film
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...well as slapstick, there are always love scenes and plenty of dancing, and everybody knows the music. But the D'Oyly Carte Company, which has set the standards for G & S stage productions since the beginning of time, has not managed to create the proper flavor in its film version of "The Mikado...
...motion picture performers. The idea came from Colorado's ex-oowpuncher Senator Edwin Carl Johnson, 66, who considers himself a friend of the cinema because he goes to the movies a lot. "Big Ed" Johnson was outraged by i) RKO's brazen exploitation of the film Stromboli in the wake of the Roberto Rossellini-Ingrid Bergman romance (see PEOPLE) and 2) the publicity given Cinemactress Rita Hayworth and her husband, Prince Aly ("Premature babies run in my family") Khan. Johnson proposed federal licensing of all movie actors, actresses, producers and distributors...
Licensing powers, Johnson argued, should be set up within the Department of Commerce. Under his bill, every actor and actress would be licensed at $1 a year, every producer at $100, every film distributor at $10,000. The bill's language was vague, but Big Ed's intent was clear: licenses would be revoked whenever a holder was guilty of a crime involving moral turpitude, or whenever the censors decided a film encouraged "contempt for public or private morality." In short, whenever the censors disapproved of the private life of an actor-or the content of a film...
With the chomping of popcorn almost audible in the sound track, the action is transparent enough to permit some enjoyment of the film's natural beauties, including the heroine. Miscast as an actress, Miss Dahl shows high promise for a career on magazine covers...
Hollywood has dealt with the idea of bigotry in many pictures. Efforts like "Pinky," "Gentleman's Agreement" and "Lost Boundaries" have all suffered because they were conscious attempts to deal with a Problem. However, in "Montana," Warner Brothers have slipped by a new, refreshing treatment. For this film, set in the West in days when men were men and the horses knew it, appears to be a simple Western...