Word: elia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year-old mother of five who started out as a comedienne only six years ago, she now makes $4,000 a week haunting the U.S. nightclub circuit. She plays Texas Guinan in Elia Kazan's movie Splendor in the Grass, and has been nationalized by Jack Paar (28 appearances). Despite the cash struggle going on between Paar and Ed Sullivan, she performed last week on the Paar show, even though she is scheduled to tape a Sullivan show this week. Currently she is at Greenwich Village's Bon Soir, an underground cigarette oven so sophisticated, she claims, that...
...direction--by Elia Kazan--and the photography are passing fair, and, all in all, the film is still, I suppose, a good one. But the illusions of youth die a horrible death; and I'm not sure whether I can conscientiously recommend the thing to anyone who saw it in 1955. It gets pretty painful...
...When Elia Kazan called Sally one 4:30 a.m. and casually requested 250 "chaste teen-agers," she soon had a string of buses rolling toward Manhattan from a Catholic girls' school in Trenton, NJ. "I want a dozen brunettes," said Kazan another time. "And I want each one of them to be so luscious that without saying a word, you just know that . . ." She was also ready with blondes when Kazan changed his mind...
Wild River (20th Century-Fox). The story of the Tennessee Valley Authority is an epic in search of a poet. It has not found him in Elia Kazan, who produced and directed this picture, but it has found at least a man who can experience the elemental tensions of the tale-public against private interest, mule-team against machine society-and can extricate them from a script that smells less of the river than it does of the paste...