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...make The Big Lift, Writer-Director George (Miracle on 34th Street) Seaton spent nine months of preparation in Germany, three months of shooting on actual locations. He used only two Hollywood actors (Montgomery Clift and Paul Douglas), plus a handful of German professionals and a large supporting cast of U.S. Air Force officers & men whom he turned into surprisingly convincing actors portraying themselves...
Tyrone Power, Howard Duff and Montgomery Clift were chosen overwhelmingly as the three sexiest men in the world by 150 women movie extras, polled in Hollywood. The three sexiest women in the world: Ava Gardner, Jane Russell and Lana Turner. The biggest upsets: Errol Flynn and Ingrid Bergman got only one vote each...
Based on a Broadway misinterpretation of Henry James's Washington Square, the film shows a timid, plain heiress (Olivia de Havilland) courted by a charming idler (Montgomery Clift). Her father (Ralph Richardson), who regards her as a hopelessly unlovable girl, turns her into just that. Using her inheritance as a weapon, he drives off the fortune hunter and blasts her only chance of happiness. The Heiress is something less than the stern and oppressive tragedy James wrote (for one thing, Olivia de Havilland's seductive shyness and warmth make her an unconvincing candidate for spinsterhood), but it still...
Temporarily at least, Clift and Douglas have run away from such other promising newcomers as Arthur Kennedy, Richard Basehart, Robert Ryan, John Lund, Farley Granger, Louis Jourdan, Ricardo Montalban and Christopher Kent. One who has not been left behind is Melchor Ferrer (no kin to Broadway's Jose), an experienced actor. His performance in Lost Boundaries, as the Negro doctor who secretly crosses the color line, is one of the year's best. Scarcely a newcomer, but definitely a comer, is Richard Widmark. It took two years and three pictures for 20th Century-Fox to dilute the Widmark...
...roles. In Conspirator, not yet released, Robert Taylor (no kin) made love to Elizabeth so fiercely (said Hedda Hopper) that one of her vertebrae was dislocated. Next year Elizabeth will get an even juicier part in Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy. She will co-star with Montgomery Clift...