Word: carousels
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...Carousel is a beautiful movie of thrilling music, swirling skirts, and colorful settings. But in the midst of all the beauty, not to mention the bigger, better Cinemescope and stereophonic sound, much of the intimacy of a personal drama is lost...
...Carousel, by that unfortunate pair, Rogers & Hammerstein, has been further garished by "Cinemascope 55." Gordon MacRae, Shirley Jones, and starring Mary Breen. More than your eyes have ever seen! Keith's Memorial...
...real stunner of the show is the heroine, a 21-year-old newcomer from Smithton, Pa. named Shirley Jones. She has a milky, springtime skin, a creamy figure, and a smile like melting butter. Her brook-clear soprano is the best voice in the picture. In her next movie, Carousel, she will also co-star with Gordon MacRae and if they don't watch out they may become the Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald...
...works. First, Frankie and NBC abruptly called off their parleys about the network's lavish five-year contract offer of about $3,000,000 for his TV services. Then, he walked off the Maine location where he was to star in the movie retread of the musical Carousel. His excuse: production complications would have barred him from keeping a singing date in a Las Vegas pleasure dome next week. In Rome, meanwhile, one of Frankie's most voluptuous girl friends tolled a bell for him. Asked if romance had bloomed between her and Sinatra, touring Swedish Cinemactress Anita...
...Stranger, that was cashing in big. He also had two major movies in the can (The Tender Trap, a comedy, and Guys and Dolls, a musical in which he portrays Nathan Detroit, proprietor of "The world's oldest permanent floating crap game"), and had signed contracts for Carousel and three more. Probable total: five movies in twelve months. Probable personal in come from pictures in that period...