Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hollywood-bound for this week's wedding of her son, Cinemactor James Stewart, 41, to Socialite Mrs. Gloria Hatrick McLean, 31, Mrs. Elizabeth Stewart was plainly pleased at his abdication as the town's most eligible bachelor. Said she: "I'm so very glad that Jimmy is getting married. I was kind of worried that he wouldn...
Rope of Sand (Paramount) is Hollywood's flowery way of describing the prohibited desert area surrounding a fabulous South African diamond mining concession. Mounting guard on the diamonds are a shrewd, sadistic police chief (Paul Henreid), and his boss (Claude Rains), an elegant, cynical fellow who plays with human lives like a petulant puppet master. With the help of a luscious French trollop (Corinne Calvet), the two men are bent on frustrating the aims of a hulking American hunting guide (Burt Lancaster) who feels that he has earned the right to walk off with some of their precious pebbles...
...time she has had her way, the plot has encompassed a torture scene and the remarkable regeneration of the heroine. It has also been looped and twisted into a tricky knot of complications and double crosses. Rope, in fact, proves only two things: 1) given enough plot, any Hollywood melodrama can be counted on to hang itself, and 2) when it comes to acting, Miss Calvet, for all her diamantine Gallic glamour, is only a rhinestone in the rough...
...Moore) and obeys her every word. It is only when he becomes the target of a safari, headed by Robert Armstrong, that he begins to throw his weight around. Captured by Armstrong's cowboys, who look like Lilliputian daredevils mounted on pygmy horses, Joe is bundled off to Hollywood as a nightclub attraction...
...family. It has just about everything, including Technicolor, that a family movie should have: a devoted father (Dan Dailey) who can sing & dance, a doting mother (Anne Baxter) who can dance and act, and a sprightly moppet of a daughter (Shari Robinson) who, like most Hollywood prodigies, can do almost everything except the two-and-a-half somersault on a flying trapeze...