Word: cinema
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...today." Many experts agree. Not since John Barrymore first hauled on his buskins has a young actor's fire brought such a light to so many critics' eyes. Almost all his Broadway performances have won rave reviews ("our most memorable young actor"), and he has backed the cinema critics into the adjective bin. They have felt in Brando's acting a kind of abysmal reality that not even Barrymore, who in all technical respects was far and away Brando's superior, could plumb. At moments he can vanish into the character he is portraying like...
Died. Bert Lytell, 69, for 66 years an actor in the theater, radio, cinema and TV; after an operation; in Manhattan. A matinee idol of silent films (The Lone Wolf, Alias Jimmy Valentine), he moved smoothly from leading man to character roles on Broadway (Lady in the Dark), served as president of Actors' Equity for seven years...
...films as a whole proclaim that . . . the American way of life [comes] as near to perfection as is possible . . . There is much value in a minority report . . . Powerful, though perhaps prejudiced, is the case as pleaded by [Salt]." But the film did little box office at the highbrow Academy Cinema, due partly to the presence of Communist pamphlet-passers. "To put it bluntly," complained Manager Francis Howard, "Salt's laid...
...result was Ivy Cinema, a co-ordinating organization which arranged for the film showings and divided the profits between the three member groups...
...while movies brought in large profits to all three organizations separately, it didn't pay when the three combined. The UN Council dropped out before it lost all its money, and Ivy Cinema folded by the year...