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...more modest home, he rented one in California's San Fernando Valley for a day, moved the family out until shooting was over. He even used a real police station-free of charge. After he was well into the TV story, Stone realized that he had a possible full-length movie, so he made the necessary alterations in his story. Result: the picture, Confidence Girl, which cost only $55,000, will get A-picture release by United Artists...
...serious basement. The majority of Sheen's books (Peace of Soul, Lift Up Your Heart, Three to Get Married) are upstairs work, designed for the middle-brow reader. But some are serious, furnace-room philosophy (God and Intelligence, The Philosophy of Religion). This week Sheen published his 36th full-length book, The World's First Love, about the Virgin Mary. Like all his others, the book is dedicated to Mary - or, as he puts it in the dedication, "the Woman Who, in a world of Reds, shows forth the blue of hope." Tiller of the Soul. More than...
...Hollywood, Esther Williams, who has splashed her way to many an aquatic box-office hit, was in the swim again. This time it was the life story of Annette Kellerman, a pioneer of the one-piece bathing suit (with full-length tights), which caused her arrest in a shocked Boston 42 years ago when she introduced it. On hand as technical adviser was 64-year-old Annette herself to help with the facts and with Esther's 28-bathing-suit wardrobe, which includes fluffy bloomers and sleek, skintight numbers, but nothing in the Bikini line. Annette believes the Bikinis...
...event, the Pas de Deux and the dancers' individual variations were the high points of the evening. Yvette Chauvire and Leon Danielian also did a fine job as the Swan Queen and the Prince in Swan Lake, but for anyone who has seen the Sadler's Wells full-length production, the Ballet Russe's version is always a frustrating experience...
...village priest, Don Abbondio, for example, is no stock cleric of the sort Balzac rolled off his nib, but the full-length portrait of a weak, well-meaning man of the world, truckling where he has to, lording it where he can, glad to do a kindness if you'll wait till after supper, parish-wise and heaven-foolish all day long. The wicked nun is not simply wicked, but a believable wretch who got that way partly through her own vanity, partly because she was hideously tricked by her father into a life she had no call...