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...Married. Rouben Mamoulian, 47, lean, owl-eyed stage & screen director (Oklahoma!, Queen Christina); and Azadia Newman, 33, comely, lynx-eyed socialite portraitist, cousin of the Duchess of Windsor; he for the first time, she for the third; in Peekskill...
Sadie Thompson (adapted from John Colton's and Clemence Randolph's Rain by Howard Dietz and Rouben Mamoulian; music & lyrics by Vernon Duke and Mr. Dietz; produced by A. P. Waxman) is more frost than Rain. Behind the famous play of the missionary who brought a scarlet woman to God only to be himself ensnared by the Devil there was a steady theatrical drive. In Sadie Thompson that drive is halted by every song, every dance, every stage procession...
...Rouben L. Lurie will preside. Dr. Lerner will answer questions from the audience. Doors open at 7:30 o'clock and the public is cordially invited to attend...
Perforce Director Rouben Mamoulian substitutes spectacle and color for the story in Blood and Sand II. His film artfully goes from low to high key as it takes its color tone from the palettes of the Spanish masters: the somber browns of Murillo for the opening sequence; the shade and shine of Sorolla for the market scenes; El Greco's eerie greens in the chapel; Velasquez' black & white for the banquet; and the rich red & gold of Goya for the arena...
...flavored the Odets play and disguised the too-literal symbolism of its situation, Golden Boy is saved from sinking into a slow-moving dialect melodrama chiefly by the freshness of its new male star. Curly-topped, ingenuous-looking Actor Holden was picked from Paramount's roster by Director Rouben Mamoulian, who, after testing hundreds of candidates for the Golden Boy role, chanced to see Holden in a screen test for another picture. Most surprising fact uncovered by Columbia's publicity department about Actor Holden, born William Franklin Beedle Jr. 20 years ago in O'Fallon...