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...said: "[The Legion] is something that Hollywood should have fought and didn't ... for the same reasons that they have never fought anything: they didn't want to stop the flow of film for one week." ¶The U.S. mass audience, even the moviemakers admitted, is more grownup in its tastes than the run of movies are, and would support more adult pictures. But the men from Hollywood did some buck-passing to the audience, too: the public perpetuates the star system, which keeps budgets high and originality at a low ebb; it sometimes passes up good pictures...
...State, along with her sister and her uncles, and govern in the King's absence. She will still have to wait three more years before she comes into her own money (a ?6,000 annual allowance from Parliament and numerous legacies), but to all intents she is a grownup, with her own suite of rooms at the palace. The yawning gap of years that separates her from her elder sister is all but closed. There is only one minor difference left: one day Elizabeth will probably be Queen and she, in all likelihood, will not. For Margaret that difference...
Married. Mickey Rooney, 28, perennial cinemadolescent (the Hardy series) who recently graduated to grownup roles (Words and Music, Killer McCoy); and Martha Vickers, 24, Hollywood starlet (The Big Sleep); he for the third time, she for the second; in North Hollywood...
...does not try to boss, but often guides, the patient. The theory is that if the patient talks enough about his troubles, he will finally get 1) the relief any confession brings; 2) a somewhat less sentimental view of himself; 3) a realization that he too can be a grownup...
...rehash of Madame X, etc. might have been an entertaining movie, but it is done without gaiety, irony, style or even simple fun. MGM, long the world's No. 1 star-polisher, has mishandled the stars in the show. Elizabeth Taylor, who is just beginning to move into grownup roles, is one of the loveliest girls in movies; but here she is made-up and hair-done and directed into tired, tiresome conventional prettiness. Miss Garson has beauty, vitality and professional know-how. These are all visible, yet the performance is almost never joyous or even convincing. It looks...