Word: films
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bushy-tailed best. Gallivanting about Rome with 60 other rubbernecking Bostonians, Democrat Hynes got himself photographed with a nestful of Neo-Fascists, was front-paged by happy Communists and indignant Conservative dailies alike. Some newspaper reports alleged that Hynes had visited the Neo-Fascist headquarters, had seen a film glorifying Mussolini's last stand, asked a café orchestra to play the forbidden Blackshirt hymn Giovinezza, topped off his day by observing July 4 with a 2 a.m. fireworks display on the Appian Way-creating such indignation that a city council meeting debating the reports broke up in acrimonious...
Sidney, who is preparing to film Mackinlay Kantor's Andersonville for Columbia Pictures, called in lawyers to see if there was a case against Climax for its production of The Trial of Captain Wirz, the Andersonville Jailer (TIME, July 8). Twentieth Century-Fox still seethed over Climax' play The Dark Wall, which the studio thinks resembled its forthcoming Three Faces of Eve. The situation is so touchy that CBS rejected a script about Actress Jeanne Eagels for fear of enraging Columbia, whose Jeanne Eagels, starring Kim Novak, is awaiting release...
...bound to get into the same areas some time. The same thing that sparks us sparks them. It's not stealing." Evidently it was just beginning to occur to some studios that television versions of forthcoming movies might not be altogether harmful. Warner, preparing a film biography of Helen Morgan, tried fiercely to keep The Helen Morgan Story off Playhouse 90, but admitted quietly last week that it will borrow the title for the film...
Such celebrated series as Air Power and Victory At Sea have shown what wonders imaginative handling can work with the heaps of celluloid that lie hoarded in film vaults. Last week NBC began showing how the same technique can pay off in an exciting sports show, The Big Moment (Friday, 9:30 p.m. E.D.T.). Put together by Hearst Metrotone News experts with Sportscaster Bud Palmer as host-narrator, the first of the half-hour series presented a fast-moving cavalcade of memorable events, e.g., Roger Bannister outracing John Landy, Bobby Thomson's pennant-winning homer for the New York...
...Spirit of St. Louis. New York to Paris with Charles A. Lindbergh; Director Billy Wilder and Actor James Stewart make a good film about a great adventure (TIME, March...