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...dating from the days when he commanded the U.S. Pacific Fleet in World War II. But he made it clear that he was just browsing and not afflicted by any passion to pen his memoirs, as so many of his comrades-in-arms have done. Such books, said he, brim with "many critical remarks and self-praise at the expense of others. Any memoirs I wrote could not add historically to what has been written...
...Capone (Burrows-Ackerman; Allied Artists) is amusing proof of the old saw that each generation rewrites history in its own image. In the lurid cinemythology of the '30s, Capone was glorified by Paul Muni (Scarface), Edward G. Robinson (Little Caesar) and James Cagney (Public Enemy) as a snap-brim Satan. In the sober retrospect of the '503, he is reduced by Rod Steiger to a mere whitecollar, clean-desk psychopath-a sort of organization maniac...
...Diary of Anne Frank. Director George Stevens, with a hatful of triumphs already to his credit, goes over the brim with a flawless and massive epic of the Dutch Jewish girl and her family in hiding during World War II. Newcomer Millie Perkins, who resembles a younger Elizabeth Taylor, is almost all anyone could ask as Anne...
...Diary of Anne Frank. Director George Stevens, with a hatful of triumphs already to his credit, goes over the brim with a flawless and massive epic of the Dutch Jewish girl and her family in hiding during World War II. Newcomer Millie Perkins, who resembles a younger Elizabeth Taylor, is almost all anyone could ask as Anne...
What the critters lacked in talent they made up in hard work. They wiggled through more walking lessons than Brigitte Bardot, and rasped themselves raw-handed to perfect the fast draw. Times without number they blasted holes in their own britches, and one of them, while poking his hat brim with a pistol, accidentally shot his own sideburns off. They became the prima donnas of horse opera, and sometimes it seemed as if they would rather pull hair than triggers. "Oh, Hugh O'Brian doesn't matter," Dale Robertson sniffed recently. "He's just a itty-bitty...