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...rard would be remembered more for his influence and his eccentricities than for his painting. It would be hard for his friends to forget Bébé waddling about Paris dragging his fat, slovenly white poodle "Hyacinth" on a dirty rope. At fashion shows he would sometimes sprawl full-length on the floor with Hyacinth in his arms, clapping his hands and crying out "Ravishing!" as the models swished past his head. If he did that, the dresses were sure to be a success...
Champion (Screen Plays, Inc.; United Artists) is a full-length portrait of a middleweight heel. Based on a hard-bitten short story by the late Ring Lardner, it is a brilliant example of the kind of punch a mall studio can pack, if it has an intelligent script and a smart director. To get by the Johnston Office, Scripter "Carl Foreman made his hero, Midge Kelly Kirk Douglas), a shade gentler than Lardner's original. The movie Midge, for instance, does not paste his dear old mother in the jaw. Otherwise he is just about as unlovely a piece...
With all his business responsibilities, harddriving, hard-drinking egoist Glenn McCarthy (he keeps a full-length color photograph of himself in his office) is still as truculent as he was in his days as an oilfield roughneck. The tales of his business deals are almost matched by the stories of his rough & tumble brawling which has caused him to be barred from more than one Houston club. He likes expensive hobbies. Last year his planes came in one, two and four in the Bendix air race. He is rumored to be spending $100,000 to enter a car in this...
Long about ten years ago, Hollywood historians dug into the exploits of the notorious James boys (of St. Joe, not Cambridge) and found enough material for two full-length movies. The mother lode has run out, though, and the golden moments in "I Shot Jesse James" are not worth anywhere near the 85 cents it costs to assay them...
...directed and starred in a revue called Fridolinons, a collection of skits, songs and dances. With it he had toured his native Quebec, drawn some 130,000 people a season, netted an annual profit of about $50,000. Tit-Cog was Fridolin's first try at writing a full-length play...