Word: dial
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Light. In Denver, after breaking into and ransacking the Colorado Duntile Products Co., breaking locks off tool boxes and the dial off a safe, a burglar finally gave up, penned a thoughtful note: "This night has convinced me that tomorrow I am starting to go straight. Your friend, the burglar...
Restraint & Control. M-G-M still seemed uncertain about what to do with her. But Alfred Hitchcock, also impressed by the Taxi test, snapped her up for Dial M for Murder, then for Rear Window...
Still, Small Voice. In Milwaukee, sentenced to two years for stealing a jacket and toweling, Gerald F. Russell admitted that he had no use for either, explained lamely: "I guess every person has a little larceny in his heart." Dial Tone. In Pacific Beach, Calif., telephone repairmen uncrossed the wires leading into the home of Robert J. Schroeder after Schroeder and his neighbors complained that every time his telephone rang it set off the air raid siren across the street...
...best acting job of his career, as a true-to-life patsy in On the Waterfront, Brando got the nod from the New York Film Critics, Film Daily and the Hollywood stars themselves, who were polled by the United Press. Newcomer Grace Kelly, who smoothly dressed up Rear Window, Dial M for Murder and Green Fire (see below} with what Director Alfred Hitchcock has called her "sexual elegance," but who performed most stunningly in her biggest acting part as the embittered wife in The Country Girl, won hands up with the New York Film Critics, and the National Board...
...Country Girl) hit hard. A couple of Columbia's bread-and-butter farces (It Should Happen to You and Phffft!) made Judy Holliday and Jack Lemmon a comic staple in the neighborhood theaters. In Knock on Wood, Danny Kaye renewed his lease on the adjective "incomparable," and with Dial M for Murder and Rear Window, the year's best thrillers, Alfred Hitchcock held his title as the world's foremost goose'esh-peddler...