Word: brynners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Better than Brynner. For the ordinary Italian family the supermarket still has drawbacks. Unlike the small shops, the supermarkets do not give credit or make home deliveries. Most Italian housewives cannot afford imported foods, cannot take home much food on a motor scooter, and do not have a refrigerator to store the food at home. Nonetheless, shopkeepers located near supermarkets complain that their business is down a third. Even Communist housewives have ignored the Red complaint that "Rockefeller is strangling the food merchants...
...that those whom people call supercapitalists are running this business. What matters is that people pay less." (Supermarket prices average about 10% below those in the shops.) From a Milan housewife came even more heartfelt praise. Said she: "I enjoy a trip to the supermarket more than seeing Yul Brynner in the movies...
Those moviegoers who came to know and love Yul Brynner as the King of Siam in the film The King and I will be pleased to find him unchanged in his role of Dmitri in The Brothers Karamazov. His head is still bald; he still struggles with his emotions with the expressionless face of a man who has just sat through an elementary Hum. lecture; and his mien while watching Maria Schell (Grushenka) shake voluptuously through a rather fiery dance sequence in a Russian-style sin-den is not unlike the beaming countenance he displayed while greeting his numerous children...
...past year: Marilyn Monroe and Kim Novak. The new all-male marquee names hailed as dollar signs by exhibitors: 1) Rock Hudson, 2) John Wayne, 3) Pat Boone, 4) Elvis Presley, 5) Frank Sinatra, 6) Gary Cooper, 7) William Holden, 8) James Stewart, 9) Jerry Lewis, 10) Yul Brynner...
...just lost Marilyn Monroe for the part of Grushenka, and could not be sure that Warner Bros, would let Carroll Baker play it), took one startled look at Maria and got on the phone to Director Brooks. "I just saw Grushenka." After the party, Maria happened to meet Actor Brynner in the lobby of her hotel. He took one startled look and got on the phone to Director Brooks. "I just saw Grushenka." "O.K., O.K.," said Brooks. "You just saw Grushenka. Everybody just saw Grushenka. But can she act?" A quick look at Gervaise settled that. Brooks arranged a lunch...