Word: haywards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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KATHRYN N. RHODES Hayward, Calif...
...Producer Leland Hayward is devoting his considerable energies to the Lindsay & Crouse drama, The Prescott Proposals, starring Katharine Cornell and telling of the tribulations of a U.S. woman delegate to the United Nations...
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...
...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...