Word: celluloid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Grace Kelly Story, as Hollywood might have called it, was the stuff that celluloid dreams are made of, but the reality kept threatening to get in the way of the romance. With lovely Grace herself to play the part of the screen-star daughter of an American bricklayer turned millionaire, and Monaco's own Serene Highness, Prince Rainier III. as her handsome betrothed, the plot was the kind that producers understand and fans love. But Hollywood, Philadelphia and Ruritania are far easier to mix on film than they are in fact: so pat a plot raised the question whether...
Table Tennis Tournament. White was barred because a white celluloid ball can be lost against such a background...
...lords of the celluloid jungle are a rugged breed. They have to be. When the actor is a businessman, what he says in conference can matter more than how he says his lines. He must learn how to pick a story as well as play it, fire an actress on the set as well as set her on fire...
ALTHOUGH the baffling, dedicated, often tormented painters of the late 19th century have inspired one Hollywood opus after another, the celluloid vision has proved no more revealing than the dated contemporary photographs. This month at Chicago's Art Institute, a traveling exhibition of Toulouse-Lautrec will offer a fresh look at that tempestuous age, peopled by the foppish, witty, dwarf-legged chronicler of Montmartre and his painter friends Paul Gauguin and Vincent van Gogh. There, done with quick, sure strokes, is the record not only of what Toulouse-Lautrec saw as he grappled with the living instant...
This is the story the film tells competently. At times, however, the celluloid seems to have been coated with whitewash as well as WarnerColor-a treatment that damages Billy as well as the story. Billy's virtues (courage and sincerity) were set off, as well as offset, by his vices (fanaticism and tactlessness). In the part as it is written, Gary Cooper plays the flamboyant Billy for a sort of militant old maid, and his historic cry for justice for the air service sometimes seems about as exciting as an old maid's protest that the neighbor...