Word: garson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hollywood. He knew exactly what Americans wanted and he gave it to them, by ballyhooing unknown kids into superglamorous movie stars. He found Robert Taylor at Pomona College and Joan Crawford in a chorus line. His star system, soon copied by his competitors, developed Gilbert, Murray, Gable, Tracy, Garson, Garbo, Powell, Astaire and Turner, clustered them and others in such big-money films as Ben Hur, The Good Earth, Grand Hotel and Dinner at Eight. If need be, Mayer could alter his proclaimed moral standards to fit the freewheeling '20s and '30s, turned loose Gilbert and Garbo...
...playwriting: what's not comedy is sentiment. And at the end, anything knotty or disconcerting just goes down the drain: Pop may play fast and loose, but he loves his son; Uncle may rant and roar, but he eventually writes out a check. There are amusing enough moments; Garson Kanhvs staging is brisk, and Paul Douglas' father surprisingly believable. But as a new theater form-the problem farce-A Hole in the Head falls decidedly short...
...Mother, a title bearing such intimations of immorality that the studio had to fight the censors to retain it. The movie was a spoof of bastardy. But with Ginger Rogers and David Niven starred in it and with Hollywood's boy wonder of the day, 26-year-old Garson Kanin, directing, the spoof was wholesome, human and hilarious. Bundle of Joy is wholesome. It is an energetic attempt to prove that what was done so deftly in the '30s, Hollywood's golden age of light comedy, can be done just as well in the '50s. Producer...
...With Clark Gable in Command Decision, the station scored a whopping Trendex rating of 28.4 on Saturday night after 10:30 p.m., then found that even on a Monday enough viewers stayed up past midnight to give an impressive 21.1 to Ronald Colman and Greer Garson in Ran dom Harvest. In Chicago WBKB leaped from fourth to first place by launching 740 RKO movies with a showing of Rosalind Russell in The Velvet Touch, and two other stations rushed in fresh Hollywood features of their own. Philadelphia's WFIL led its field late at night by dipping into...
After nearly four years on Broadway and a successful movie run, Garson Kanin's ragtag yarn was an eventual certainty for TV. It also marked Kanin's first crack at TV directing. He was surprised at the prissiness of TV censors: four of the several references to Billie as a "broad" had to go. Anything that might be construed as a reference to mental illness was also cut: "crazy broad" became "dizzy broad." "Off her nut" became "blow her stack." Suggestions of physical impairment were primly deleted, viz., Billie, trying on her glasses, to Harry: "What...