Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...form on the last day. Labeling Western leaders "dealers in blood, merchants of death," he demanded that "generals who think the U.S. would remain invulnerable in the event of another war should come out of their fool's paradise," and grasp that "coexistence is the paramount task of our time." "We shall win," he cried, "but we'll let you live...
...Buccaneer (Paramount) introduces to the moviegoing millions the most exciting new film personality since Clark Gable with a mustache: Yul Brynner with hair. Yul did not really grow his own. The studio has provided him with a "transformation"-a curly, reddish-brown confection that suggests a sensitive blend of Bonaparte, Presley and well-kept Irish setter. Unfortunately, the picture will surely prove for many moviegoers, no less than it was for Actor Brynner, a hair-raising experience...
...Geisha Boy (Jerry Lewis; Paramount). Jerry Lewis stands glaring across the body of a sleeping blonde at a white rabbit. Jerry is a butterfingered magician who has all he can do to pull the rabbit out of a hat. How can he conceivably pull the thing out of a sleeping compartment without waking the dame (Marie McDonald) and rousing the rest of the passengers on the flight...
...Morros would have liked to spring his father from the "frozen prison" of the Soviet Union, but as it was, he could not even get food packages through to him. All this changed one day in 1936 when a seedy character who called himself Edward Herbert sidled backstage at Paramount and said he could fix things so that Morros Sr. would get his hampers. After the wheedling and finagling came the bullying, and Morros found himself being hectored by "Herbert," now a foul-mouthed drunken oaf called Zubilin, who said he was boss of the NKVD...
...money, names and culture. They were not impressed so much by the fact that Musician Morros had been Piatigorsky's first cello teacher as that he had once paid Ginger Rogers $75 a week, and that Bing Crosby and Bob Hope had jostled backstage for a job at Paramount. Also, incredible as it may seem, the Russians were grateful because he had turned down a flesh peddler's offer of Leon Trotsky as a Paramount stage attraction...