Word: cinema
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other (Rosalind Russell) has a go-to manner. Based on the humorous New Yorker short stories by Ruth McKenney, the show has had a long dramatic history: it was a 1940 Broadway hit as My Sister Eileen, starring this year's Oscar-winning Shirley Booth (see CINEMA). Rosalind made the movie version in 1942 and has played the role of Ruth in a dozen radio broadcasts. Though always successful, the show was never the smash that it is today, dressed up in Leonard Bernstein's bright music and with the addition of gracefully ungainly Musicomedienne Russell...
...Silva, Actress Anne Revere, and three of the moviemakers who were shouted out of Silver City, N. Mex. this month for filming the semi-documentary Salt of the Earth) filed suit for a whopping $51,750,000 damages from 17 film companies, two producer associations, 20 top-ranking cinema executives (L. B. Mayer, Howard Hughes, Dore Schary, Sam Goldwyn, et al.), nine Congressmen (including the committee's current Chairman Harold Velde), and two committee investigators. The complaint: that their being named on studio blacklists (for such things as refusal to answer the committee's questions about their political...
Died. Herman J. Mankiewicz, 55, cinema writer-producer (Oscar winner, with Orson Welles, for Citizen Kane), elder brother of Writer-Director Joseph L. (All About Eve) Mankiewicz; of uremic poisoning; in Hollywood...
Married. Howard Hawks, 56, cinema director (Scarface, Red River); and Dee Hartford (real name: Donna Higgins), 26, brunette New York model; he for the third time, she for the first; in Hollywood...
Divorced. By Ruth Elder. 47, aviatrix of the '20s who made a well-publicized but unsuccessful bid in 1927 to become the first woman to fly the Atlantic (the first: Amelia Earhart, in 1928): sixth husband Ralph King, 54, cinema cameraman; after 1½ years of marriage; in Los Angeles, after she testified that he called her "a grey-headed old bag" and said he "wanted a young chick...