Word: breen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Screenwriter Richard (Titanic) Breen: "For the moment it is safe to say that Hamlet [in 3-D] is out of the question unless it can be staged on a roller coaster."¶ London Movie Critic Dilys Powell, reviewing Man in the Dark (TIME, April 20): "If I must be placed in the position of a firing-squad victim ... I want my eyes bandaged...
...glamour girl in an off-the-shoulder gown by Jean Louis hairdo by Helen Hunt, and make-up by Clay Campbell. She wriggles, writhes and undulates through this predecessor of the modern striptease with such abandon, as she methodically removes as many veils (six) as the law and the Breen Office will allow, that moviegoers may come away with the feeling that never before has history been so colorful...
...Elgin, Ill., arm-weary Frank Breen, 38, claimed four world horseshoe pitching records after a six-hour marathon with a pair of 2^-lb. shoes. The records: 1,362 ringers in 1,724 pitches; 271 points and 86 ringers in 100 consecutive throws; 28 ringers...
...ever. They took their themes from the world around them: war, occupation, poverty, misery and human courage. Sex was merely incidental to such plots, but since it was handled in the casual manner in which Italians regard sex, it startled U.S. audiences, accustomed to the sniggering censorship of the Breen office...
...these successive triumphs goes to Evans, whose accent strangely combines the rural Midwest (he was born in Franklin, Ohio) and Oxford (he was a Rhodes Scholar and took his Ph.D. at Harvard). Credit also goes to the non-glittering but pleasantly intelligent panel: Editor Francis Coughlin, Teacher Robert Breen, Actresses Carmelita Pope and Toni Gilman...