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...long ago, Francis Albert Sinatra seemed at the other end of his string. The crooner and his career dangled hopelessly as one competitor after another zipped up the popularity and bestselling list, and Frankie's public and private relations (i.e., with his second wife, Cinemactress Ava Gardner) grew progressively worse. Over their coffee and cheesecake at Lindy's, the Broadway arbiters of show business pronounced their verdict: Frankie was about washed...
...Nobody Outsells G.U.M." [TIME, March 15]: Heaven save us from Communism if for no other reason than what the U.S.S.R. has done to the perfume industry. Imagine Ava Gardner slithering into a room enveloped in "Essence of the U.S. Cavalry." I wonder how "Riveter's Dream" or "Spirit of Capitalist Wall Street" would sell...
...latest assaults is included in the May issue of Confidential, a slick-papered magazine published in New York and specializing in sex, crime and Communism. Sandwiched between "Ava Gardner -- She Wows'em and Wrecks 'em" and "Homosexuals Inc." Confidential this months publishes "There's Plenty of Red in the Harvard Crimson" (no reference to this newspaper). The article is written by Howard Rushmore, a former Communist now ace Red expert for the New York Journal American and confidant of McCarthy...
...screenwriters' efforts to scrape the tarnish from poor Launcelot's soul. And it is clear that they had to pare down the number of characters wandering through the story to keep within the limits of the CinemaScope screen. But when only a lean-faced Mel Ferrer, a sullen Ava Gardner, and a Frank Merriwellish Robert Taylor remain, disappointment tends to creep in. All that keeps the audience from leaving their seats are the colorful sword-swinging battle scenes between regiments of Round Table rivals and the single-handed heroics of Robert Taylor's Launcelot...
Flecked with historical idioms like "My liege" and "So be it!", the dialogue is dull and insipidly metaphorical. Taylor and Ava Gardner, who plays Guinevere, struggle gamely, but neither can reduce the heaviness of the material. Late in the film Queen Guinevere is sent to a nunnery. Miss Gardner shifts through this role with the same dexterity we would expect from Lily St. Cyr. Mel Ferrer, as King Arthur, spends the greater part of the film looking wide-eyed at people and ornaments about the palace. He is so obsequious one cannot help but wonder how he put over this...