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...Radio Theater (Mon. 9 p.m., CBS). The African Queen, with Humphrey Bogart, Greer Garson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADIO: Program Preview, Dec. 15, 1952 | 12/15/1952 | See Source »

Stewart Granger heads the cast of classicists in the dual lead of king and commoner, Deborah Kerr is the provocative princess, James Mason the invidious villian, Jane Greer, a femina ex machina, and Louis Calhern the cunning colonel and tutor of tyrants. Louis Stone, who played the hero in the original version, appears briefly as the bishop...

Author: By Laurence D. Savadove, | Title: The Prisoner of Zenda | 11/17/1952 | See Source »

...topnotch cast, most of whom worked for less than their regular salaries to be identified with such a big "prestige" picture: Marlon Brando (Mark Antony), Louis Calhern (Caesar), James Mason (Brutus), John Gielgud (Cassius), Deborah Kerr (Portia), Greer Garson (Calpurnia). The screenplay, reportedly all Shakespeare, contains no "additional dialogue." Says Producer Houseman: "We kept it in black-and-white because there are certain parallels between this play and modern times. People associate dictators with black-and-white newsreel shots of them haranguing the crowds . . . Mussolini on the balcony, that sort of thing. With color, you lose that reality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Et Tu, Brando? | 10/27/1952 | See Source »

...third appointment has made Howard C. Greer the Dickinson Lecturer for 1952 at the Business School. He is the Vice-president in charge of Finance of the Chicago, Indianapolis, and Louisville Railway Company...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: McCloskey Makes Associate's Post; Other Jobs Filled | 4/17/1952 | See Source »

...still the amusing story of a pair of elegant swindlers preying on a group of social snobs who turn out to be just as fraudulent, in their own way, as the crooks. The culprits team up in Victorian London, where one is the perfect lady's maid (Greer Garson), the other a scampish, penniless aristocrat (Michael Wilding). Moving on to gullible San Francisco, where wealthy climbers are eager to fawn on English nobility, the maid passes for a marchioness and the blue blood for the perfect butler. Their plans go awry, and the comedy shifts from drawing room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jul. 30, 1951 | 7/30/1951 | See Source »

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