Word: cinema
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Born. To Shelley Winters, 29, cinema "bad girl" (A Place in the Sun, The Great Gatsby), and Vittorio Gassman, 32, Italian actor of stage (Hamlet) and screen (Bitter Rice): their first child (his second), a daughter; in Hollywood. Name: Vittoria Gina. Weight...
...Hollywood. In her ten years on the lot, she has danced and smiled her way up from a $75-a-week job to a $3,500-a-week contract with 20th Century-Fox (for such pictures as Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay! and Oh, You Beautiful Doll). In spite of cinema's glamour treatment, she is also an unassuming and likable woman-as one agent put it, "one of the few actresses in town an agent would say nice things about...
Married. Ginger Rogers, 41, durable blonde cinemactress (Kitty Foyle, Monkey Business); and Jacques ("Jacky") Bergerac, 26, French cinema novice who met Ginger in Europe last summer, followed her to Hollywood and an M-G-M contract; she for the fourth time, he for the first; in Palm Springs, Calif...
...Sundays the British may go to the cinema, but not to the theater. The theaters are closed, and big sporting events are prohibited. Under Britain's strict "Quiet Sunday Laws," some of them centuries old, a poet may give a recitation so long as he makes no gestures and dons no costumes (only a Scotsman may perform in a kilt-others would be dressing up). The laws forbid game shooting (except rabbits), beekeeping demonstrations, milk deliveries between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m., buying bread at the baker's after i :30 p.m. (although it is possible to borrow...
...office bust that followed such films as death of a salesman and Streetcar Named desire in "51 was a delight to the quo Vadis school of cinema which holds that art is not entertainment, and to add to the Oscar committee's woes, several studies have withdrawn their financial support from the Awards...