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There is a wonderful movie fighting to get out of this $50 million musical. Unfortunately for Producer Ray Stark, the movie is Camille, that transcendent Garbo weepie, which Daddy Warbucks takes his button-eyed orphan to see at a Radio City Music Hall advance screening. (Quite a bit in advance: Annie is set in 1933; Camille was released in 1937.) In an adroit 4½-minute condensation, the tragic story of Marguerite and Armand unfolds, brief and mesmerizingly beautiful. The clip also possesses an innocence, a sweetness of spirit, that this 1982 blockbuster never even tries to capture...
...conclusion almost half a century ago. There Cukor's interpretation of Katherine Hepburn and Cary Grant's marriage ceremony freezes into a gossip glossy for a national magazine. Hollywood labelled Cukor "the woman's director," because he presented women in his films, like Katherine Hepburn, Joan Crawford and Greta Garbo, as strong, commanding human beings. His men frequently took the passive role, and Rich and Famous takes this further, into the realm of a feminist film. Jacqueline Bisset, the film's star, also co-produced it, which may help explain why this "Cukor Film" sees men with feminine eyes...
...current rate, senility should hit Hollywood about March of 1990." When he is not reviewing for TIME, Corliss is busy preparing new issues of Film Comment, a bimonthly journal (circ. 30,000) that he has edited since 1970. He has also written two books: Talking Pictures and Greta Garbo. Once a year, Corliss interrupts his hectic schedule to serve on the selection committee for the New York Film Festival, which means screening as many as 200 films over a period of seven weeks. "Film festivals are usually part summer camp and part penal camp," he says. "But it helps...
...Pianist Edouard Hesselberg, Douglas made his Broadway debut in 1928. In 1931 he married Actress Helen Gahagan, who later became a noted political activist and Congresswoman from California. After establishing himself as a suave, romantic leading man during the 1930s and 1940s by playing opposite such stars as Greta Garbo (Ninotchka), Gloria Swanson (Tonight or Never) and Joan Crawford (A Woman's Face), Douglas shifted to first-rate character portrayals in such films as Billy Budd (1962), The Americanization of Emily (1964) and I Never Sang for My Father (1970). Douglas, who had just completed his 77th film, Ghost...
...Voyager has been playing on the late show. Carnes, 34, who served time in the late 1960s dishing up freezer-packed folk music with the New Christy Minstrels, has a voice that is throaty without being funky, insinuating but safe, sort of like Lizabeth Scott chugging Vicks cough syrup. Garbo and Harlow are mentioned with Davis in the song, an evocation of a killer-diller temptress who gives the guys a tumble and turns them inside out ("She'll expose you when she snows you/Off your feet with the crumbs that she throws...