Word: carmichael
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Story, has the same old Hughesian ingredients: Jane Russell's bust, Vincent Price's portrayal of a rich degenerate, a luxurious locale. (The Fabulous Hotel in Las Vegas), and a spectacular chase sequence near the finish. Only this time Victor Mature (not Robert Mitchum) plays the hero, and Hoagy Carmichael has been thrown in for kicks too, along with an incredible diamond necklace rented from Cartier, Inc. The result, as usual, is a preposterously silly picture...
...songs played most often last year: Hoagy Carmichael's 1929 Stardust and Porter's 1935 Begin the Beguine...
Last week Airman Carmichael, now 44, took on a bigger job. After four years of dickering, he signed an agreement to merge Capital with Northwest Airlines and form the biggest (8,089 route miles) U.S. domestic airline system. It is the latest of a series of mergers,* now pending CAB action, designed to strengthen U.S. airlines. If the deal is approved, as expected, Carmichael will become president and operations boss of the new line. Northwest's President Croil Hunter, 58, will become board chairman...
...deal was, Slim Carmichael was as cool as ever. Once after he had brought a plane in safely on one wheel with one engine ripped off, he described the incident as "nothing to get excited about." Said Carmichael last week after signing the deal: "It was about as casual as if we were buying each other a pack of cigarettes...
...credit), a murder, and the inevitable chase sequence: villainous Brad Dexter, absconding in a stolen car with both Jane Russell and the jewels, as pursued and overtaken by Mature in a helicopter. Besides petulantly tossing her head at both Mature and Vincent Price, Jane sings three songs by Hoagy Carmichael, and is thoroughly photographed in bed, in a glass-walled shower, and in & out of a succession of deep-plunging evening dresses...