Word: filmland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most explosive emotional actress of her generation had. in fact, erupted over filmland and was filling the vicinity with temperamental lava, flaming ash and general consternation. Soon after her arrival in the U.S., Magnani banished the TV set from her hotel room and ordered a grand piano, on which she battered tempestuously when the mood was on her. Bored with the chef's chef-d'oeuvres. she was seen marching up to her suite with $50 worth of groceries in tow. She gave interviews from her bed, her hair like a black dustmop, her bag-rimmed eyes like...
...historical pictures as many moviegoers are of looking at them. Using plenty of stock shots and operating on a low budget, the film goes on a foot-dragging Technicolor pilgrimage through 13th century Italy, with a side trip to the Holy Land for one of the skimpiest Crusades in filmland history. Ricardo Montalban plays the peasant hero who does battle with evil barons, cruel Saracens and assorted charmers, including Betta St. John and blonde Carolyn Jones, a graduate of TV's Dragnet. Despite the costumes, the atmosphere is more that of the Middle West than the Middle Ages, just...
...nine Congressmen (including the committee's current Chairman Harold Velde), and two committee investigators. The complaint: that their being named on studio blacklists (for such things as refusal to answer the committee's questions about their political beliefs and affiliations) has made them jobless pariahs in filmland. The outcast 22 demand a permanent injunction against "maintaining any blacklist or policy of blacklisting or discriminating against the plaintiffs . . . with respect to employment in the motion picture industry...
...House Un-American Activities Committee, continuing its search of Who's Who in the Communist world, quizzed Hollywood-Broadway Writer Abe (Guys and Dolls) Burrows, 41, who freely admitted that he had furnished lyrics and piano accompaniment for many a Red gathering in filmland, but had never paid dues nor signed the card. Said he: "If [someone] said I was a Communist Party member he was probably telling the truth as he saw it. I was seen with them. I was around, but I wasn't one of the fellows." Burrows had been "pretty naive," commented Committeeman Harold...
...news brought a quick and bold counterattack from the Hearst estate's special administrators, Son Randolph Apperson Hearst and Lawyer Henry MacKay Jr.: "This so-called agreement . . . was never executed and for this and many other reasons has no more effect than if it never existed." Snapped Filmland Lawyer Gregson Bautzer, who had helped set up the agreement last year for Hearst: "The document will speak for itself when filed...