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...films for the armed forces, industrial films for such clients as Shell Oil Co. and Timken Roller Bearings, TV commercials and such specialized jobs as the supplying of cartoon "bridges" for the film The Four-Poster, starring Rex Harrison and Lilli Palmer. He is eager to move on to full-length animated pictures, and hopes to rival Disney's Cinderella and Peter Pan with adult treatments of classic stories, such as Volpone and Helen of Troy, as well as Gilbert & Sullivan operettas...
...bourgeois marriage while her female relatives train her to become a rich man's mistress. Next day the New York Times's Critic Brooks Atkinson wrote: "Miss Hepburn is the one fresh element in the performance. She is an actress; and, as Gigi, she develops a full-length character from artless gaucheries in the first act to a stirring emotional climax in the last scene. [She] is spontaneous, lucid and captivating." The rest of the New York critics heartily agreed. Paramount Pictures and William Wyler, who had decided to keep their $2,200,000 production waiting for Audrey...
Died. Frankie Bailey, 94, the original "girl with the million-dollar legs" (no kin to Author Temple Bailey, above); in Los Angeles. She first caused a sensation at the turn of the century in Weber & Fields musicals, wearing full-length tights and a plumed hat. At 63 she vainly tried to crash the movies, lived her last years in penniless obscurity...
Within its Reader's Digest format, the Digest prints cartoons and writing culled from newspapers and magazines, unsigned articles of its own, and even a "full-length mystery" called Death Stalks the New Deal. Editor of the Digest is Public Relations Director Clayton Fritchey, 49, of the Democratic National Committee, ex-newsman (Pittsburgh Press, Cleveland Press, New Orleans Item), onetime administrative assistant to Harry Truman, and press campaign adviser to Adlai Stevenson. While the Democrats are not trying to make money on the Digest, Editor Fritchey estimates it will break even on a circulation...
Mahatma Gandhi-Twentieth Century Prophet. An eloquent, full-length documentary about India's late great leader, narrated by Quentin Reynolds (TIME...