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Only 24, Beatty has not yet been seen by the public in a motion picture, but he is the lead in Director Elia Kazan's soon-to-be-released Splendor in the Grass (an original screenplay by Broadway's William Inge) ; and opposite Vivien Leigh, he has just made The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone, an adaptation of Tennessee Williams' only novel, directed by José Quintero. Top directors, in short, consider him the best of the new young leading men. With a facial and vocal suggestion of Montgomery Clift and mannerisms of James Dean...
...year-old mother of five who started out as a comedienne only six years ago, she now makes $4,000 a week haunting the U.S. nightclub circuit. She plays Texas Guinan in Elia Kazan's movie Splendor in the Grass, and has been nationalized by Jack Paar (28 appearances). Despite the cash struggle going on between Paar and Ed Sullivan, she performed last week on the Paar show, even though she is scheduled to tape a Sullivan show this week. Currently she is at Greenwich Village's Bon Soir, an underground cigarette oven so sophisticated, she claims, that...
...direction--by Elia Kazan--and the photography are passing fair, and, all in all, the film is still, I suppose, a good one. But the illusions of youth die a horrible death; and I'm not sure whether I can conscientiously recommend the thing to anyone who saw it in 1955. It gets pretty painful...
...play's fine moments--funny, poignant, or pathetic--are captured, but they are few, and there is none of the slowly raging conflict that made Kazan's movie version of the play a classic...
When Elia Kazan called Sally one 4:30 a.m. and casually requested 250 "chaste teen-agers," she soon had a string of buses rolling toward Manhattan from a Catholic girls' school in Trenton, NJ. "I want a dozen brunettes," said Kazan another time. "And I want each one of them to be so luscious that without saying a word, you just know that . . ." She was also ready with blondes when Kazan changed his mind...