Word: casts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...else was gone, they even sold their children. Meanwhile, their leaders and their friends sought help for them from the sprawling network of international organizations designed to ease the way for just such refugees as themselves. The first 2,000 fishermen to arrive got $3.50 each, plus some cast-off clothing, from the government of Nationalist China. A few boxes of food from CARE went to about 527 who arrived last April. For the others there was nothing...
...production's cast of veterans (Hans Hotter as Sachs, Wolfgang Wind-gassen as Stolzing) put on a plodding, vocally uninspired performance. But few members of the audience had ears for the music-it was the sets and the staging that intrigued them. Some critics conceded that Wieland had given the work spiritual unity, but they argued that the staging style was not consistent...
High Society (MGM) is simply not top-drawer. It should have been. The formula was sound: add music and color to a tested product, in this case Philip Barry's old hit, The Philadelphia Story. Producer Sol Siegel assembled a Who's Who cast. He talked Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra into teaming in a movie for the first time, snagged the services of Grace Kelly for her last screen appearance before embarking for Monaco, paid Cole Porter a reported $250,000 for his first original movie score in eight years, and hired Louis Armstrong to blow...
...rich man's John D. Rockefeller. Some of his more offhand gestures have included chartering a steamship for a royalty-only romp in 1954 chaperoned by Greece's Queen Frederika. Niarchos obligingly provided another steamer last summer so that Elsa Maxwell could take an all-star supporting cast (Olivia de Havilland, Aly Khan, the Duke and Duchess of Argyll) on a Mediterranean junket while Niarchos cruised the other end of the sea aboard the Creole; he was "too busy" to go along...
...four stab wounds and unmistakable signs of torture. Chief Inspector Gently, Central Office, C.I.D., a Scotland Yard detective who unfortunately pops peppermints into his mouth during tense moments, gives the tale a tone of well-mannered British calm in spite of the neon-lighted boardwalk setting and a lurid cast of characters, which includes a prostitute, a couple of juvenile delinquents, a village idiot and a gang of international spies...