Word: film
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...This film is somewhat ambiguous; for you cannot be sure whether it is comical or serious in its intent. It is certainly amusing when saucer-eyed Miss Davis rants, raves, and rollicks about her lavish apartment, tossing her long head of hair from left to right. Yet there seems to be a message beneath all the frivolity. The message is this: many of the people who get to the top on Broadway are rotten to the core. Their success is built on a foundation of selfishness and deceit...
...about Eve" is a wittily contrived film about theatrical people's values. Its characters are a temperamental veteran stage actress (Bette Davis), an unscrupulous young girl named Eve who wants to be a stage star (Anne Baxter), and a handful of other arty folk including a director, a producer, a writer, and a columnist...
Perhaps Hollywood has used the humor of this movie to cushion a blow at theatrical novels. The surprising ending of the film seems to suggest that crime can pay--on Broadway--and you will leave the theatre thoroughly amused and perhaps a bit horrified...
...televising without permission a 36year-old film, Whirl of Life, starring Irene and Vernon Castle, CBS, Ed Sullivan and the Ford Motor Co. were sued for $250,000 in damages by Mrs. Irene Castle McLaughlin Enzinger, who felt that the film was not fair to her late dancer husband. Said she: "Mr. Castle's clothes look oldfashioned, his hat is strange-looking, his coat is too short. He wears a putty nose in parts of it. I didn't want the Castles to be seen in a ridiculous light, to be laughed at by people today who never...
Bitter Rice (Lux Film] is an Italian-made melodrama with many points of resemblance to a U.S. thriller. It is lifted out of the ordinary by 1) its star, a sexy, sultry young woman named Silvana Mangano, and 2) its subject, the rice harvest of northern Italy...