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...much unlovely plot that it can hardly be seen. The heroine (Ginger Rogers) is a kept woman who has everything that money (Stanley Baker) can buy-from a villa on the Riviera to a Jaguar parked outside it. But all she really wants is love (Jacques Ber-gerac). Bergerac (Actress Rogers' real-life fourth husband) is an artsy-craftsy type who makes expressionistic pottery for a living. "Maybe you're a genius," sighs Ginger, and decides that she would rather go and pot with him than go to pot with Baker. As a matter of fact, Baker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Dec. 6, 1954 | 12/6/1954 | See Source »

...film, it had to play an expensive game of Haydn seek; nowadays, the film colony has a sort of Bach yard full of kept musical geniuses. The current favorite is a man called Dimitri Tiomkin, who has filled in the awkward pauses of High Noon, Cyrano de Bergerac and many other recent pictures with stuff that one critic called "Kaffee-Klatchaturian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 1, 1954 | 11/1/1954 | See Source »

Married. Mala Powers, 22, auburn-haired cinemactress (Outrage, Cyrano de Bergerac) who nearly died from a blood disease acquired in a 1951 Christmas entertainment tour in Korea; and Monte Vanton, 36, real estate broker; in Hollywood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 25, 1954 | 10/25/1954 | See Source »

...sufficient amount of both." In his eight years as an independent movie producer, almost three of them with the backing of Columbia Pictures. Wonder Boy Stanley Kramer placed himself in the third category. He startled his competition and movie critics with such films as The Sniper, Champion, Cyrano de Bergerac, Home of the Brave, Member of the Wedding, High Noon. Some of these, and a few others (The Four poster, Death of a Salesman, Eight Iron Men), did poorly at the box office; nonetheless, each was a fine piece of craftsmanship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Half a Step Behind | 12/14/1953 | See Source »

Married. Jose Ferrer, 41, actor-producer-director of stage and screen (Cyrano de Bergerac, Moulin Rouge, The Shrike); and Songstress Rosemary Clooney, 25 (Come On-a My House); he for the third time, she for the first; in Durant, Okla., six days after Ferrer's previous wife, Broadway Actress Phyllis Hill* 32 (The Fifth Season), divorced him in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 20, 1953 | 7/20/1953 | See Source »

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