Word: cutters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stanley Kramer is an intense young man who learned moviemaking from the ground up, as studio handyman, film cutter, script editor, scenario writer, wartime writer-director of Signal Corps training films. At 32, just out of the Army, he got together a team of bright young moviemakers, wangled financing, started in as an independent producer. Short of money, he slashed costs by rehearsing his actors thoroughly before the cameras began to grind. The B-budget results he turned out -Champion, Home of the Brave, The Men-rated A with both critics and the ticket-buying public, made Hollywood...
...into first-love and writes his first novel. To fill up the picture, Author Costain offers such familiar turn-of-the-century sideshows as a feud between the sons of Balfour's leading family, the sight of the first car on the town's streets, a runaway cutter, balls, belles and sleighbells. None of these trappings quite disguises the fact that Hero Ludar is as dim as a 50-year-old memory and that Son of a Hundred Kings offers, after all, a pretty flat solution of the mystery of Ludar's parentage. A lot of Literary...
...Blade. In Memphis, careless Grass Cutter Lehman Barnes drove his power lawn mower into the street, ran into an automobile, was charged with reckless driving...
...About Eve (20th Century-Fox), a needle-sharp study of bitchery in the Broadway theater, is Producer Darryl F. Zanuck's major bid for 1950 Oscars. Zanuck, usually a ruthless cutter, thinks well enough of the picture to let it run 2 hours and 18 minutes. His company echoes his high opinion by releasing the movie on unprecedented terms: no latecomers are to be admitted to its scheduled (but continuous) performances...
With Imagination. Big, 37-year-old Dave Garroway, an amateur mechanic, gem cutter, tile-setter, photographer, bird fancier, cabinetmaker and bibliophile, says his scriptless show is planned by "four guys sitting around a table." The other three, all under 35, are Writer Charlie Andrews, an ex-hobo; Producer Ted Mills, an expatriate New Yorker; and Director Bill Hobin, an ex-drummer. The Garroway show's top council, with Burr Tillstrom (Kukla, Fran & Ollie) and Documentary Expert Ben Park, make up the brain trust of the close-knit, argumentative group that has developed the Chicago school. Explains...