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Manhattan gossipists worked hard to fill the gaps made in their columns by the departure for Hollywood of robustious (40-18-35½) Actress Jayne (Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?) Mansfield. With a truffle hound's nose for publicity, Jayne quickly set filmland agog by flapping her charms at anyone who could rush her into print or picture. Lunching with the New York Herald Tribune's Hollywood Legman Joe Hyams, Jayne, bubbling over her first film stardom ("Everybody calls me Miss Mansfield") in a movie to be released under the titillating title of The Girl...
Died. Jean Hersholt, 69, veteran Hollywood character actor, best remembered for his kindly radio portrayal of Dr. Christian; after long illness; in Hollywood. A sometime painter, book collector and translator (a complete English version of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales), Danish-born Actor Hersholt became one of filmland's best-loved personalities...
...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...