Word: films
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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TIME'S May 20 Cinema section gives an erroneous box-office report (also published in Variety) for The Spirit of St. Louis in Little Falls, Minn., Charles A. Lindbergh's home town. The film played in two theaters, not one, grossing a near record of $1,380 at the Falls and $239.20 at a smaller theater for a total $1,619.20 in one week. Latest Little Falls population census is 6,717. So Lindy is still a big hero in his home town...
...only one new show: a live comedy-variety spot for young (29) Dick Van Dyke, an Orson Beanish kind of comic who earlier served on To Tell the Truth. Humorist Sam Levenson's quiz game Two for the Money will share Saturday's Jackie Gleason hour with filmed editions of old Jimmy Durante shows. The newest hillbilly darling, Jimmy Dean, will continue his weekday morning show and also move into CBS's "new talent spot" on Saturday night at 10:30-a bonus for having clobbered NBC's Today in the ratings. TV's best...
...final script has been written, although John P. Marquand '15, the noted author, has agreed to undertake the assignment, and Ormonde deKey, Jr. '45 has dug up all relevant old film material. Until then, Suchmann's outline is enough. It emphasizes not only the past history of the University and its rise to greatness, but also the present and, obliquely, the future...
Somehow or other, he manages to survive without becoming unduly ruffled. Both Dean Bundy and William Bentinck-Smith '37, assistant to the President, have aided him greatly with their broad knowledge of Harvard lore and history. Old film clippings, accumulated over the past fifty years, have also proved of great value: they will actually make up about 50 percent of the completed movie...
...sequences, Suchmann is looking for photogenic material. "We want a film of good quality," he explains. Both his cameramen are eminently suited to give him just this. They are Lloyd M. Ritter '50 and Murray L. Lerner '48, who photographed the Oscar-winnings Secrets of the Reef. They have also made a number of movies for television...