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Perhaps more important, she is a fine actress. Her acting, combined with her splendid physical assets, always succeed in making Do Santis' hyperthyroid scenario seem plausible. She throws herself into the part completely, and the effect is often overpowering...

Author: By Stephen O. Saxe, | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 1/4/1951 | See Source »

...picture's difficulties, Allan Scott has written a scenario remarkable for its triteness and absurdity. It is a clumsy variation on the love-success story, told without any success at all. It drags miserably, revived only occasionally when Astaire dominates a scene...

Author: By Thomas C. Wheeler, | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 12/4/1950 | See Source »

...Priestley's scenario may, at times, seem a bit fantastic and occasionally moves too rapidly from one incident to another, but Mr. Priestley has treated the theme of human loneliness with originality, with humor, and with pathos--with a dexterity which overshadows minor plot difficulties...

Author: By Thomas C. Wheeler, | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 11/22/1950 | See Source »

First-night fans saw a brilliant revolvable set of a little Paris street corner and its bistro. In his scenario, Petit turned the "beautiful woman" of his childhood into a jewel thief who steals diamonds "not to wear or sell, but to eat, like children crunch candy." The first the audience saw of her was a slim white arm and shoulder, snaking out through a hole in the wall to lift the wallets of passersby. When Ballerina Renée Jeanmaire finally turned up in full view (in sexy black tights) to sing & dance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Cruncher | 11/13/1950 | See Source »

Stanley Kramer is an intense young man who learned moviemaking from the ground up, as studio handyman, film cutter, script editor, scenario writer, wartime writer-director of Signal Corps training films. At 32, just out of the Army, he got together a team of bright young moviemakers, wangled financing, started in as an independent producer. Short of money, he slashed costs by rehearsing his actors thoroughly before the cameras began to grind. The B-budget results he turned out -Champion, Home of the Brave, The Men-rated A with both critics and the ticket-buying public, made Hollywood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Horizon | 11/13/1950 | See Source »

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