Word: cinema
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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MOST famous cinema stars have, at one time or another, placed their hands & feet in a block of wet cement in the courtyard of Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood, thereby receiving some desirable publicity and, after the cement has hardened, attaining a certain immortality. The only columnist who has been so honored is Louella Oettinger Parsons...
Divorced. By Maureen O'Hara, 31, red-haired cinemactress (The Quiet Man -see CINEMA) : Movie Director Will Price, 39; after ten years of marriage, one child; in Los Angeles...
...profit and found a good home for it. He and Sidney Franklin Jr. wrote an original story about the lion which M-G-M purchased. The movie was produced under the title Fearless Pagan, with the lion playing the leading role. For a review of the film, see CINEMA in this week's issue...
After New York State's Board of Regents banned Roberto Rossellini's controversial The Miracle as "sacrilegious," the U.S. Supreme Court upset the ban. It ruled that 1) the cinema is entitled to the rights of free speech and free press, and 2) those rights may not be abridged on grounds, e.g., sacrilege, that no U.S. official is qualified to define, because no U.S. official can officially define what is sacred. Last week two other censors banned The Miracle on other grounds. Ohio took exception to the film for purely moral reasons. Citing the seduction of the idiot...
...other news of Philosopher Rogers, see CINEMA...