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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...partly because of Rudolph Valentino, an actor who expressed passion by bulging his eyeballs and moodily waggling his whipstock. Undaunted, M-G-M decided to risk a remake of Horsemen. With the help of Director Vincente Minnelli (Gigi), eight big-name players (Glenn Ford, Ingrid Thulin, Charles Boyer, Lee J. Cobb, Paul Lukas, Yvette Mimieux, Karl Boehm, Paul Henreid) and a $6,000,000 budget, the new production manages in several respects to be even sillier than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Horsemen Get a Ford | 3/23/1962 | See Source »

...actors, only Boyer, who plays the hero's father, shows any style. Hero Ford portrays his Argentine as a sort of Fisk Tire Baby with sideburns, but in one scene his performance does achieve a certain breadth. During a colossal CinemaScope closeup, according to an excited M-G-M press release, his eyes are darn near 65 ft. apart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Horsemen Get a Ford | 3/23/1962 | See Source »

Inverse Ratio. Formed ten years ago, Four Star is actually run by three stars (Powell, David Niven and Charles Boyer) and ex-Adman Tom McDermott. "We are one of the three largest producers of network television programming in the industry," says Powell. "I won't be satisfied until we're the biggest-and we will be." Starting out with the old Four Star Playhouse and later booming with the five-year run of Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater, the company has been all over TV, with as many as 13 series running at one time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: J. Pierpont Powell | 1/5/1962 | See Source »

...doesn't much matter what else you do, or how people feel about you, or what your personality is. Winning is all that counts." To tighten the shaky Yankee defense, Houk discarded Casey Stengel's platooning tactics, installed Tony Kubek permanently at shortstop, slick-fielding Cletis Boyer at third. To get more power into his lineup, he shifted Catcher Yogi Berra to leftfield, made longtime Second Stringer Elston Howard the No. 1 catcher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Old Stoneface & the Major | 10/6/1961 | See Source »

...from a good musical based on a novel by Marcel Pagnol, has tried to do the same thing in Hollywood and has failed--at least, aesthetically. FANNY is genuine four handkerchief family-style mediocre entertainment- starring everyone that should appear in a Hollywood musical about foreigners: Leslie Caron, Charles Boyer, Horst Bucholz and Maurice Chevalier. Afternoons and evenings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WEEKLY CALENDAR | 10/6/1961 | See Source »

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