Word: gardner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ride, Vaquero! (MGM) makes the old horse operas on TV look good. It takes some of Hollywood's silkiest purses and, without half trying, promptly and efficiently turns them into sow's ears. It has a beautiful star (Ava Gardner), yet somehow manages to make her seem drab, and a basically exciting story (bandits v. ranchers) which, in this version, has no more suspense than a mystery story read backwards. Ava is the wife of a handsome, brave, wooden-faced Texas rancher (Howard Keel), who gets into a feud with a Mexican bandit (Anthony Quinn), a fellow...
...Philadelphia this week, Publisher Walter H. Annenberg, 45, of the Inquirer (circ. 643,985) announced a new venture in a new field. For a reported $250,000, he bought the title "Quick" from Publisher Gardner ("Mike") Cowles, who folded his pocket-size weekly last month (TIME, April 27). In mid-September, Annenberg will put on the newsstands a brand-new Quick-a Reader's Digest-sized fortnightly news-and-picture magazine with such contributors as Christian Science Monitor Editor Erwin Canham and Radio's Martha (Meet the Press) Rountree. By printing Quick on the Inquirer...
Actor-Director Gene Kelly left the U.S. 18 months ago to make movies in Germany and England. Claudette Colbert went off to England and Italy. Clark Gable and Ava Gardner made a movie in Africa, Gregory Peck in Rome. Gary Cooper's cinemactivities took him from Samoa to Mexico and Europe. Kirk Douglas completed a film in Israel, then went to Italy...
...Prodigal (M-G-M), with Ava Gardner and Vittorio Gassman...
...Publisher Gardner Cowles's fast-growing pocket-size weekly...