Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Witness to Murder (Chester Erskine; United Artists) might be called a desk sergeant's holiday. Barbara Stanwyck dials the police in the middle of the night to say that she just saw a woman strangled in an apartment across the street. But when Detective Gary Merrill reaches the scene of the supposed crime, there is nobody there but George Sanders, and he looks like a man who never strangled anything more than a friendly impulse...
Also on the bill is The Last Holiday, in which Alec Guinness is again versatile and funny, though more melancholy than in his celebrated series of roguery...
Just to prove that superior acting ability can be passed off as mere frosting on the cheesecake, Actress Audrey Hepburn, who won this year's Hollywood Oscar for her starring role in Roman Holiday and the top "Tony" award for her performance in the Broadway hit Ondine, expertly struck a pose for photographers to help ballyhoo her forthcoming movie, Sabrina...
Eddie Albert is a singing comedian whose checkered career has hopped from Broadway (Brother Rat) to Hollywood (Roman Holiday) to TV studios and back again. Maria Margarita Guadalupe Boladoy Castillo is a dancing actress, known simply as Margo, who made her mark in such films as Winter set and Lost Horizon...
...came back to the table and asked for a recess until 5 p.m. so that the matter might be discussed with party leaders. "Not even five minutes!" snapped Bidault. "This text must be signed today, because it must be presented to the House of Commons before it goes on holiday...