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...Samson and Delilah...
Divorced. By Olivia de Havilland, 36, cinemactress who has twice won Oscars (To Each His Own, The Heiress): Marcus Aurelius Goodrich, 54, hot-tempered one-shot novelist (Delilah); on their sixth wedding anniversary; in Los Angeles. To back up her charge of "incompatibility" Olivia explained to the court that Goodrich 1) never told her he had had four previous wives, 2) had not worked since their marriage, 3) "took exception to something I said . . . said he would kill me." Awarded custody of two-year-old Benjamin, Olivia sighed: "I couldn't bear the idea of divorce...
...restless. As Novelist John Marquand puts it in Melville Goodwin, USA: "He was one of those Samsons ready and waiting for some Delilah to give him a haircut, and Dottie Peale was just the one to do it. Melville A. Goodwin was going to get his hair cut, and medals and stars and clusters would not help...
...British woman's magazine, Britannia and Eve, that Matania found his real career. He filled his London studio with reproductions of Roman furniture, pored over history books for suitably lively subjects. Then, with the help of models and statues, he began to paint such subjects as Samson & Delilah, the bacchanalian roisters of ancient Rome, and even early American Indian maidens-all with the same careful respect for accuracy and detail he had used in his news assignments...
David and Bathsheba takes itself much more seriously than Samson and Delilah. Scripter Philip Dunne has made a literate adaptation of the story from the second book of Samuel. His characterizations of David (Gregory Peck), a national hero grown cynical, lax and unpopular, and Bathsheba (Susan Hayward), a proud, shrewd charmer, are thoughtful and thorough. And Peck's performance carries surprising authority...