Word: cinema
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...citizens with a firm grip on French and British history may remember, when it comes to Mexico, little more than the cinema-celebrated names of Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata, and the conquistador Hernán Cortés. Few are aware that in the past three decades Mexico, historically unstable (see box), has stirred itself, put away its pistols and begun an explosion of industrialization that has pulled one-third of the once-somnolent population into a new middle class...
...Uncle (French). Jacques Tati (Mr. Hulot's Holiday), who is probably the cinema's most gifted present practitioner of the sight gag, has produced a satire on the mechanization of modern living that is always pretty witty although, in movie-making terms, it is sometimes tatty Tati...
...strenuous duel scene in which Power (King Solomon) was supposed to kill Actor George Sanders (Adonijah); in Madrid. The son and great-grandson of actors of the same name, Tyrone Power first learned his craft on the stage. Signed to a Fox contract in 1936, he was the cinema's top moneymaking star two years later, stacking up a list of credits that eventually included Jesse James, The Rains Came, Blood and Sand, Captain from Castile, The Eddy Duchin Story, The Sun Also Rises and Witness for the Prosecution. Noted for his independence of mind after his World...
Died. Sam Zimbalist, 57, M-G-M producer whose fondness for spectacle resulted in such films as Quo Vadis, King Solomon's Mines, Mogambo; of a heart attack on the set of one of the biggest splurges in cinema history-M-G-M's $10 million-plus Ben Hur; in Rome...
...CINEMA...