Word: boulevarding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first movie from Producer Charles (Sunset Boulevard, The Lost Weekend) Brackett since Paramount split his partnership with Billy Wilder, The Mating Season is a disappointment. Among its contrivances, it tries to palm off Lund as a sympathetic character, an effort that fails despite the script's broad, last-minute gestures. Star Ritter gets most of her help from Actress Hopkins' expert playing of a bitchy lady of quality. There is also a surprisingly animated performance by Gene Tierney...
Spirit of the Enemy. Back in his house on the Boulevard Gambetta in Hanoi that night, Commander in Chief de Lattre said: "The spirit of the man who leads the enemy is the kind of spirit which means it to be a great battle." As for his own spirit, De Lattre pointed to a huge situation map: "I will use my air. I will use my artillery. I will use my infantry. Perhaps after having tasted it for another day, the enemy will say 'enough.' I am sure we will...
...city hall steps. I walked over to him and asked him his name. He said his name was Hong Kiu He, that he was eight years old and that he had no father or mother. We put young master Hong in our jeep and drove down Mapo Boulevard to the Toyoda Apartment Hotel...
...film critics, enjoying their annual late-December pastime of picking the screen's best of the year, seemed to agree that the two best movies of 1950 were Paramount's Sunset Boulevard and 20th Century-Fox's All About Eve. The National Board of Review put Sunset Boulevard first, voted Gloria Swanson, in her sensational screen comeback, the year's best actress. The New York Film Critics put All About Eve first, singled out Scripter-Director Joseph L. Mankiewicz as best director and Star Bette Davis as best actress. By citing Gregory Peck as best actor...
...Sunset Boulevard. Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder take a clever, sardonic look at Hollywood, and Gloria Swanson makes her comeback, in the year's most consistently brilliant display of movie craftsmanship (TIME...