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...hoopla, the awards themselves brought few surprises. There were so many Oscars available (23 in all) that Gigi, winner of the Best Movie award, was able to dance off with eight subsidiary awards without really hogging the show. Best Actress Susan Hayward (7 Want To Live!) and Best Actor David Niven (Separate Tables) were popular favorites. Nobody disapproved of Burl Ives's Best Supporting Actor award either. Nor was the crowd too upset that Britain's Wendy Hiller was named Best Supporting Actress for her relatively small role in Separate Tables...
...month's top ten moneymakers, as reported by Variety: 1) Auntie Mame (Warner), 2) Some Came Running (M-G-M), 3) Separate Tables (United Artists), 4) Perfect Furlough (Universal), 5) Inn of the Sixth Happiness (20th Century-Fox), 6) South Seas Adventure (Cinerama), 7) South Pacific (Magna), 8) Gigi (M-G-M), 9) Rally Round the Flag, Boys! (20th Century-Fox), 10) Bell, Book and Candle (Columbia...
...surprising success. Dirk Bogarde (Doctor in the House, et seq.), best known in the U.S. as a sort of British Robert Wagner, turns in a remarkably subtle and mature performance as the heroic villain. As for the heroine, any competent judge of film flesh might confidently have ranked Leslie (Gigi) Caron a little lower than Jayne Mansfield on any list of Girls Least Likely to Succeed as a Shavian Heroine. But as Mrs. Dubedat, an intellectual's woman in whom Shaw himself saw little more than charm, Actress Caron suggests that her personal and momentary charm is really...
...Variety's listing of Hollywood's top ten moneymakers for November: 1) In Love and War (20th Century-Fox), 2) Houseboat (Paramount), 3) The Last Hurrah (Columbia), 4) South Pacific (Magna), 5) South Seas Adventure (Cinerama), 6) Gigi (M-G-M), 7) Party Girl (M-G-M), 8) Windjammer (De Rochemont), 9 The Defiant Ones (U.A.), 10) Home Before Dark (Warner...
...Gigi. Colette's slender novelette larded up with production values and brought forth as a big fat musical; but the show is saved by Cecil Beaton's fruitily fin de siecle sets and costumes-a cinemuseum of exquisite eyesores (TIME...