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...Blue Denim will not quite wash. All the good intentions of Producer Charles Brackett fail to keep the picture from looking like a rerun of an old Studio One Summer Theater. It is too often stilted, static, unreal, and riddled with tasteless jokes and cliches that would embarrass Helen Trent. It is also awkwardly resolved: the play ended with the girl surviving the abortion-and only then did the walls of noncommunication tumble -but the movie tacks on a climactic chase in the night, in which the boy's father snatches the girl from danger, then gives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Aug. 10, 1959 | 8/10/1959 | See Source »

Brock Peters is a striking Crown, with a rich, thunderous baritone voice. And Helen Thigpen makes a particularly memorable moment out of the Strawberry Woman...

Author: By Harold Scott, | Title: 'Porgy and Bess' Opens at The Astor | 8/6/1959 | See Source »

...Helen Kelly is also quite pleasing as Julia Cavendish. Though she frequently underplays where she should be more commanding as a first lady of the theatre, she has a wonderful way with a sarcastic line, and her second act is particularly good...

Author: By Harold Scott, | Title: 'Royal Family' Presented at Tufts | 8/6/1959 | See Source »

...awful conditions have steadily deteriorated since the fall of 1949, when Guido and a boyhood pal named Johnny Noga scraped up $10,000 to go to a sheriff's sale and buy a bankrupt nightclub. Guido deployed his wife Eleanor at the cash register, Johnny married Helen, the head waitress, and they began to book some musical acts. Along with Brubeck and Mulligan, jazz stars as well as pop singers drifted into the Hawk-Chet Baker, Miles Davis, Erroll Garner, Dorothy Dandridge, Johnny Mathis. Regulars remember how Eleanor Caccienti refused to ring the cash register when Dizzy Gillespie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NIGHTCLUBS: Success in a Sewer | 8/3/1959 | See Source »

...more often than not, its secret has been good actors, live performances. Last week it was June Havoc as Momma, Edward Andrews as Dad, and Jane Withers as Momma's sister, who put a lively kick into Pink Burro. In the past, Tallulah Bankhead, Ethel Merman, Maurice Evans, Helen Hayes and Julie Harris handled similar chores. No one on the Steel Hour sees any reason to search for a new formula. Even in the summer, when other shows are sneaking by with reruns, the Steel Hour will remain live, with lively casts, the names familiar from countless Broadway marquees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Oldest Alive | 7/27/1959 | See Source »

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