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...Married a Communist (RKO Radio) is a celluloid bullet aimed at the U.S.S.R. -a stock gangster film with Communists dubbed into the underworld roles. Its moral is addressed to the women: don't throw over a solid union man (acted in a pleasantly wooden way by Richard Roper) for a ruggedly handsome executive (Robert Ryan) whose secretive behavior indicates that he was once a Communist agent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Pictures | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

After more than a year of production, and more financial trials and tribulations than a cross-eyed auditor, Ivy Films next week will preview its shoestring celluloid fantasy, "A Touch of the Times...

Author: By Gene R. Kearney, | Title: Premiere, Memberships Drive Launch Ivy Films' 3rd Year | 9/28/1949 | See Source »

Slattery's Hurricane (20th Century-Fox) pins a Hollywood medal on an unsung specialty of the armed forces, U.S. naval aviation's hurricane-tracking service off the Florida coast. But it is the same old celluloid medal-thin, transparent and chipped with wear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 5, 1949 | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

Back in the U.S. after three months in Europe as a self-styled "celluloid diplomat," Actor Clifton ("Belvedere") Webb filed a tart report: "From what I have seen, the only country in the world today that is safe from Communism is Russia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Wagging Tongue | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

Ingrid had teetered on her celluloid pedestal last spring when headlines carried reports of a superheated romance with Italian Cinemaster Roberto (Paisan, Open City] Rossellini. Ingrid's husband, Swedish Dr. Peter Lindstrom, rushed to see the pair in Italy. Ingrid and Rossellini stopped work on a movie and went into a huddle with the doctor, but the three emerged with a statement that left the triangle standing (TIME, May 16). Last week, goaded by day-to-day newspaper reports about her affair with balding, 43-year-old Director Rossellini, Ingrid chose to step down off the pedestal under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Off the Pedestal | 8/15/1949 | See Source »

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