Word: annas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Upgraded Genius. With dollar success, the moviemakers lost some of the advantages of their pinchpenny early days. Silvana Mangano, who got $800 for her scenic rice-picking, now commands $32,000 a picture, while Italy's top star, Anna Magnani (Open City, The Miracle), commands $96,000. But Italian producers are still able to turn out a film for as little as $112,000, less than a tenth of Hollywood's average budget. In Italy's castle-crowded, ruin-laden countryside, they need build few sets. In a nation which talks with its eyes and hands, they...
...Cannes Film Festival and stars 15-year-old Maria Fiore in her first picture. The bill may be topped by the most ambitious ($1,000,000) and first Technicolor movie Italy has yet made: The Golden Coach, directed by France's Jean (The River) Renoir, and starring Anna Magnani...
...still, how to get them down on paper. She sketches some neat satiric passages on the relations between clergymen and vestrymen, and plots the maneuvers of her matrons with the skill of an experienced admiral arranging a fleet for battle. None of Novelist Tucker's girls is an Anna Karenina or an Emma B ovary, but all four are distinct, believable and likable. And though they come on only for bit parts, Novelist Tucker's Negroes loll and drawl a pungent counterpoint to the sly, good-tempered comedy of pursuit...
...major was outraged. She dispatched a series of protesting letters to Assistant Secretary of Defense Anna Rosenberg. "It is true," the Assistant Secretary wrote back, "that a woman could fulfill her obligations as a membeR of the organized reserve without harm to her relationship with her children. I fear it is not true, however, that a mother could be called to full-time active duty with the armed forces and transferred about the U.S. or . . . overseas, without . . . jeopardizing her children's welfare...
...three Oliver-Dabney prizes for Radcliffe went to Jane Johnson '52, Anna Kris '53, and Janice Farrar '54, carrying a stipend of $75 and two of $25 respectively. The prizes in order, were for an honors essay of high distinction, the most promising junior, and the sophomore showing most improvement...