Word: glorias
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Shortly afterwards, she apparently changed her mind because she decided to marry him. She puts him up in her elegant home overlooking the bay and gives him plenty of pocket money, but Palance is still brooding over her professional affront to him. With the help of an old flame (Gloria Grahame), he decides to eliminate Joan so that he can inherit her money-and presumably finance a stage production in which he will-play the romantic lead...
This florid tale has been given flamboyant direction with overemphasis on such familiar thriller props as jangling telephones and doorbells, blaring radios, sudden shrieks and cats yowling in the night. Gaunt, towering Jack Palance makes an unusual leading man for Joan, while Gloria Grahame gives a pungent performance as the scheming other woman. As for Joan, she suffers bravely and beautifully-in gowns by Sheila O'Brien, lingerie by Tula, furs by Al Teitelbaum, and hats...
Three for Bedroom C (Brenco; Warner) is a sluggish farce set on a fast transcontinental train. On board are a high-powered Hollywood glamour queen (Gloria Swanson) and a handsome Harvard biochemistry professor named Oliphant J. Thrumm. Before the train is well under way, the actress and the professor (James Warren) find that they are doing things to each other's chemistry...
...first appearance since 1950's Sunset Boulevard, Gloria Swanson seems to be giving a devastating imitation of herself in that picture, including lacquered profile, smoked glasses, fluttering eyelashes and grande dame mannerisms...
...main change in Mike himself is that he may now be classed as a businessman. Aside from occasional weekends with Gloria at the Zanucks' in Palm Springs, he leads a quiet life. His credit is beyond question. He works hard. "I'm tired," he remarked not long ago. "I've been on my imperial feet all day." And, in his imperial fashion, he has learned a great deal about running a restaurant. Recently, when he was told that a waiter captain had been rude on the telephone to an important habitue, Mike announced quietly, "If I ever...