Word: actor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...people who drank. This meant most of Hollywood. But he said once, when he was making $200,000 a picture, that "I've survived pretty well in a rough business, don't you think?" He did survive, and probably will for several years, not because he was a great actor but because he was an entertaining one. He scarcely ever was anything but Bogie in the movies, but that was something...
...Playhouse 90 had the sound idea of dramatizing Colonel Chivington's raid, but somehow the good idea got ambushed by the bad guys along the way. Made on film, Massacre at Sand Creek on TV last week seemed devoted mainly to assuring that young (30), wet-eyed Actor John Derek, in the part of a young lieutenant who was the Indians' friend, got his saddlebags full of heroic moments before getting a Cheyenne arrow in his back. For the third time in 13 weeks, Playhouse 90 deflated the promise of its charter and abused its 1½ hours...
...with "best movie" honors, cheers coming from both the New York Film Critics (10 to 6 for the film on a preliminary ballot) and the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures. Their mutual choice as best director: John Huston for Moby Dick. In other categories they differed. Best Actor: Kirk Douglas in Lust for Life (Critics), Yul Brynner in The King and I, Anastasia and The Ten Commandments (Board). Best Actress: Ingrid Bergman in Anastasia (Critics), Dorothy McGuire in Friendly Persuasion (Board). Best Screenwriter: S. J. Perelman for Around the World (Critics only). Best foreign film: La Strada (Critics...
...nice little big-city fairy tale: a poor but pretty working girl falls for the boss's son after finding a foundling that nobody will believe is not her own. What the story badly needs is a group of skilled comedians. Eddie Fisher, no actor, has a pleasant voice, and Debbie Reynolds has a pleasant face. The main trouble is that Director Norman Taurog has dished up his soufflé with a fairly heavy hand...
Married. Gig Young, 38 (real name: Byron Barr), screen (The Desperate Hours) and stage (Oh, Men! Oh, Women!) actor; and Elizabeth Montgomery, 23, daughter of Actor-TV Impresario Robert Montgomery; both for the second time; in Las Vegas...