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White Witch Doctor (20th Century-Fox), based on the 1950 novel, pits Missionary Nurse Susan Hayward against African tarantulas, black-magic practitioners and warlike natives. Without any noticeable change from her recent performances as Jane Froman and Mrs. Andrew Jackson, Susan manages to remain gracious, composed and well-groomed as she triumphs over all obstacles to bring hygiene to the jungle. Robert Mitchum plays an intrepid hunter who gives her a helping hand, but the best acting in the film is done by an actor named Charles Gemora, who plays a gorilla...
...first-rate show: a great deal of talent and half a million dollars. The money was supplied by Ford Motor Co. to celebrate its soth anniversary with a two-hour show carried by both CBS and NBC. The talent came largely from Broadway in the persons of Producer Leland Hayward. Choreographer Jerome Robbins and Songstresses Mary Martin and Ethel Merman...
...rose from Tennessee backwoodsman and lawyer to be elected seventh President of the U.S. in 1828. He raced horses, fought Indians, was as handy with a gun as with a legal brief. Mostly, this film biography looks at Jackson (Charlton Heston) through the eyes of his wife (Susan Hayward). When Rachel Donelson Robards married Jackson, there was a legal error about her divorce from her first husband. Two years later, when the error was discovered, Jackson and Rachel were remarried. But Rachel Jackson was often the object of slanderous gossip (Jackson fought duels to defend her honor), and during...
...Stone's bestselling 1951 biographical novel, the picture hews fairly closely to historical fact; and, unlike most movie biographies of famous men, it has more than its share of legitimate adventure. But in its writing, direction and acting, it comes out as a too-slick biographical film. Susan Hayward makes a glamorous Mrs. Jackson even when she is smoking a pipe (as she did in real life), and she grows old becomingly. As Jackson, Charlton Heston is as dashing a figure in or out of politics as any moviegoer could wish. Only in the final scenes, when he ages...
...Susan Hayward (among the top ten for the first time; she was igth last year...