Word: film
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Heiress. Producer-Director William Wyler's sumptuously mounted film about a jilted wallflower's revenge; with Olivia de Havilland (TIME...
...Academy Awards presentation, Hollywood's highest social rite is the full-blown premiére (pronounced pre-meer). Last week, close to the deadline for the annual Oscar sweepstakes, 20th Century-Fox shot the works on the premiere of its own contender, Darryl F. Zanuck's war film, Twelve O'Clock High. The result was the very model of the full, colossal treatment...
Afterward came the studio's biggest protocol headache: a party at Mike Romanoff's restaurant, which can hold only 250-of the very best people, of course. When it was time for comments about the film, everyone seemed to have enjoyed it. There was no need to fall back on the standard gambit of those who are forced to comment on a bad new movie: "What a picture! What a performance!" Fox figured that, all in all, it was well worth...
...Town (MGM) brings airy imagination and solid showmanship to the kind of movie that needs it most: the musical. The film avoids such standard cine-musical trappings as hothouse splendor, the lumbering backstage story and the curious notion that the script ought to give performers a pseudo-logical excuse to burst into song & dance. Instead, by combining a fluid cinematic approach and slick Broadway professionalism, Co-Directors Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen have turned out a film so exuberant that it threatens at moments to bounce right off the screen...
Champion. A prizefight film that made reputations for Producer Stanley Kramer, Director Mark Robson and Actor Kirk Douglas (TIME, April...