Word: cinema
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dearsighted. In Cardiff, Wales, after 29 years of marriage and five children, Alice John got a divorce because her husband always made her sit in the cheap seats in the cinema while he took his ease in the costlier ones toward the rear...
Married. Jack Webb, 37, petroform cinemactor (The D.I.), creator and star of radio and TV's Dragnet: and Jackie Loughery (rhymes with Crockery), 28, Flatbush-born Miss United States of 1952, now a TV and cinema starlet; she for the second time, he for the third (his first: Cinemactress-Songstress Julie [Cry Me a River] London); in Van Nuys, Calif...
...exhibitors who run the nation's movie theaters judge a picture strictly by the money it makes. Weighing one against another, they form sharp opinions, make them known to other "exhibs" -and to respectful cinemoguls-through brief critiques in the trade weekly Boxoffice. Examples of the cinema's most practical criticism...
...bovine. Surely, by this-time, the question is of little interest, particularly after a half-hour or so of psychiatric disquisition that interrupts the plot and suspends the suspense. Still, Actor Stewart is a fascinating old pro, and in this picture Actress Novak hits a new high in her cinema career. As Director Hitchcock expressed it: "She doesn't ruin the story...
...Little Acre (Security Pictures; United Artists) is a literary locale in the moral sump at the dead end of Tobacco Road, and Novelist Erskine Caldwell mucked about in it so merrily that his novel has sold more than 8,000,000 copies in 25 years. Cleaned up for the cinema public, Caldwell's Acre still contains enough rich, smelly dirt to grow a mort of the sort of lettuce Hollywood loves best...