Word: bryna
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Vikings (Bryna Productions; United Artists) of this picture are going to make more money in a couple of months than the vikings of history did in a couple of centuries. Anyway, that is what Kirk Douglas expects, and he can ill afford to be wrong. As producer of the picture, he spent more than $4,000,000 to rent a fiord in Norway, a castle in France and studio space in West Germany; to build a 30-acre viking village and to vegetate the countryside with 4,000 bushy-bearded extras; to reproduce a navy of 33 viking ships...
Paths of Glory (Bryna; United Artists), made 20 years ago, might have found a sympathetic audience in a passionately pacifist period, might even have been greeted as a minor masterpiece. Made today, it leaves the spectator often confused and numb, like a moving speech in a dead language...
...Indian Fighter (Bryna; United Artists). "Decline in creative power," said Historian Oswald (The Decline of the West) Spengler, is "most obvious [in] the taste for the gigantic." If this dictum is true, the moviegoer of recent years has been seeing the sharp decline of the western. Gone is love's old sweet story of strong, silent him and dimity her. In its place the studios are offering enormous spectacles on the wide screen-galumphing travesties of the traditional horse opera-in which the lusty heroes now wrestle biddies as well as baddies, and the heroines are as likely...
...four weddings later, Untermeyer walked into a Manhattan courthouse in the forlorn hope of finding out which chains legally bound. Onetime Judge Esther Antin, 50, the fourth Mrs. Untermeyer,* had asked the court to declare her his legal wife. Now living with Wife No. 5, Fiction Editor (Seventeen) Bryna Ivens, 40, Untermeyer took the position that he was still doubly-wed to No. 1 (and No. 3), Jean Starr, since his Mexican divorce from her didn't really count. (Presumably, marriage and divorce with Poetess Virginia Moore, 46, wife No. 2, was legal.) Untermeyer readily admitted that...