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...great head bulging beneath a grey wig, his outsize body draped in silk, Primo Camera took Hollywood Starlet Audrey Dalton by the hand and rolled his eyes for a soulful photograph. Camera, 44, the Italian giant (6 ft. 6½ in., 280 Ibs.) who was promoted all the way up to the world's heavyweight championship in the 1930s, had turned his acting talents to the movies after a moneymaking postwar wrestling career, is currently performing (but not starring) in Casanova's Big Night and Prince Valiant. To make things complete, he and his Italian wife have just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 7, 1953 | 9/7/1953 | See Source »

...lives. Around this celebrated tragedy, Titanic weaves a less than epic story that involves an assortment of fictional shipboard characters: a middle-aged couple (Clifton Webb and Barbara Stanwyck) fighting over the upbringing of their children; a collegian (Robert Wagner) in love with the daughter (Audrey Dalton); an unfrocked priest (Richard Basehart), a wealthy, wisecracking American widow (Thelma Ritter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Apr. 27, 1953 | 4/27/1953 | See Source »

...peaceful invasion, the only real foe they encounter is the girls' prim and proper father (Leo Genn), a plantation owner who is determined to protect his unkissed daughters from the advances of the enemy. But nature takes its course, and the three fun-loving girls (Joan Elan, Audrey Dalton, Dorothy Bromiley) find romance with three personable marines (Gene Barry, Don Taylor, Peter Baldwin). Written by F. Hugh (Kiss and Tell) Herbert, The Girls of Pleasure Island is an unblushingly sentimental fable that is both idyllic and dull. The picture's outstanding assets: the pretty, Technicolored scenery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Apr. 6, 1953 | 4/6/1953 | See Source »

Last week Producer Katzman cut his way out of his leafy jungle and put his name to a new contract with Columbia. The schedule: three serials, 17 features (Prisoners of the Casbah, Charge of the Lancers, Jesse James Meets Bill Dalton), and probably at least one more like the Biblical epic Slaves of Babylon, soon to be released. Says Jungle Sam: "We got underwater stuff and we got overwater stuff and we got those three characters in the fiery furnace and on top of that we got Linda Christian doing her first screen dance." He frankly admits that many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Jungle Sam | 12/1/1952 | See Source »

Montana Belle (RKO Radio) casts Jane Russell as the infamous lady bandit Belle Starr, "who can ride and shoot like a man." When men are not falling dead in front of Belle's six-shooters, they are swooning at her feet. She is pursued by Outlaw Bob Dalton (Scott Brady), a lesser outlaw named Mac (Forrest Tucker) and a suave professional gambler (George Brent). Belle so inflames these various characters that they get to uttering such phrases to each other as: "No man takes a woman away from me and lives." During all this, Belle, dressed in tight black...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 24, 1952 | 11/24/1952 | See Source »

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