Word: stunts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...philosophical overtones about faith-which blot out the earlier and sharper issue of compromise-Joan of Lorraine is too trickily written, too full of backstage triviality, too discontinuous in its drama to be more than a serious stunt. Yet Joan's story, even when told piecemeal and with no particular eloquence, can still vibrate when enacted by someone suggesting Joan's stature-as Actress Bergman proves...
...latest television stunt. A willowy wisp of a girl last week climbed into a 190-lb. diving suit and tangoed around (with a suitably dressed partner) in a tank containing 15 feet of water. The girl: ash blonde Gillian Webb*-the 20-year-old who, with two older colleagues, does all the BBC's television announcing, a job which ordinarily demands only an ability to chat at a battery of cameras...
...Tracy) Gould's horrifying collection of comic characters, insisted that his own Lena was too ugly for him to draw. He asked the 27,000,000 readers of Li'l Abner to show their notions of how she looked. It turned out to be the comic promotion stunt of the year: everybody seemed to want to draw the ugliest woman alive, and a million repulsive drawings came in. Capp and three strong-stomached judges (Frank Sinatra, Boris Karloff, Salvador Dali) picked the worst of the lot (see cut), awarded her creator, Basil Wolverton, a Vancouver, Wash, comic-book...
Obsession (translated from the French of Louis Verneuil by Jane Hinton; produced by Homer Curran in association with Russell Lewis & Howard Young) was called Jealousy when it was first produced on Broadway in 1928. As a stunt play containing only two characters, it created a modest stir. It will-rouse little interest now. The play itself, stuffed with straw. by this time is also covered with dust. Perhaps it would still make a show piece for a pair of enormously skillful actors; but Eugenie Leontovich, with her fussy tricks and alien corn, and Basil Rathbone, with his striding and reciting...
Paul Mantz, 43-year-old movie stunt flyer, who had entered the Bendix Trophy Race four times before but never won, had this race figured: it would be won by an old hand, not by some war-bred whippersnapper...