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...Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm. "The answer to television!" So they said when Cinerama was first shown to the public in 1952, and for a couple of years praise was supported by performance: This Is Cinerama, the first full-length picture produced in the medium, has grossed more than $26 million. But the novelty soon wore off. For one thing, the customers were obviously irritated by the imperfections of the Cinerama process: the fuzzy vertical lines between the three panels of the picture; the jiggling of the panels and their variations of color and brightness; a degree of distortion...
Three years ago Stanley Warner sold out to more progressive managers, who made a deal with M-G-M for four Cinerama pictures-all of them presumably shot with a plot instead of an itinerary...
...judge from past performance, the exhibitors will probably get their money back. To judge from Wonderful World, the first picture released under the new agreement and the first Cinerama production that tells a story, most moviegoers will get their money's worth-though Cinerama's stockholders apparently have their doubts: in the period just before and just after the show opened, the stock lost more than a fifth of its value. To begin with, the blurbs for Wonderful World are black with big names: Laurence Harvey, Claire Bloom, Buddy Hackett, Terry-Thomas, Yvette Mimieux, Russ Tamblyn, half...
...actually fired last week. He was merely forced to take a giant cut in salary (down to a bony $50,000 a year) and a total loss of power. Who will succeed him? Among the first names circled were Max Youngstein, now working as a vice president of Cinerama, and James Aubrey, president of CBS Television. Aubrey is a cold financial conservative who asks only what he can do for his company, whereas Skouras once declared expansively: "I would like to do for Los Angeles what the Rockefellers did for New York." If Aubrey...
...Salome in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's King of Kings (ready for October release). With a creditable performance in The Honeymoon Machine, released last week, she has moved on to Paducah, Ky.. to play a tough-talking frontier girl in How the West Was Won, the first Cinerama film with a plot. Daughter of Chicago American Gossip Columnist Maggie Daly Bazlen, Brigid is compared by flacks to Elizabeth Taylor and described by associates as a "woman-child" with "something inside her that is 30." In How the West Was Won, she ends up hanging from a tree limb because...