Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hollywood make a movie about the love affair between a psychopathic middle-aged lecher and a twelve-year-old nymphet? When they bought Vladimir Nabokov's bestselling novel Lolita (TIME, Sept. 1), Director Stanley Kubrick and Producer James B. Harris gambled $150,000 that they will find an answer. "Basically," said Kubrick, "this story is a very funny character relationship." Hollywood wags saw one solution: make the principals a few years older and cast Maurice Chevalier opposite Brigitte Bardot...
Daily the newly formed cast trooped into a screening room in Hollywood's Television City, watched thousands of feet of newsreels. Douglas took notes when he noticed Stalin slipping a hand into his tunic or holding it behind his back; Gomez grinned and grunted along with Malenkov as he raised a glass at a Kremlin party. Gradually, as rehearsals wore on, the story took shape: the fierce old Georgian, breaking up his Politburo in an effort to divide and maintain control; the purge of Jewish doctors on a trumped-up charge of poisoning the General Staff; Stalin...
Damn Yankees (Warner). Hollywood's version of Broadway's long-running (2½ years) marriage of baseball and Beelzebub seems sure to draw more customers than the Los Angeles Dodgers, even though it too requires a screen. In this case the screen is an asset. Co-Directors George Abbott (who did the stage musical) and Stanley Donen have lathered it with offbeat color effects and the kind of all-over-the-lot bounce that on Broadway could only be suggested. As a cinemusical, Yankees manages to steal home by a wide margin...
Staring carefully at her face in the mirror, smoothing the glossy black hair and shading the lids above expressive grey-green eyes, the coolly beautiful woman saw that she was still as the world once knew her. Last week Cinemactress Gene Tierney was back in a Hollywood dressing room-back from a mental institution. Was that foreboding phrase a shame to hide? Not a bit. To ex-Patient Tierney, 37, Topeka's famed Menninger Clinic was an exultant experience...
Breezy Rise. In 1954, when she suddenly fled Hollywood after starring in 30 major movies since 1940, it hardly seemed possible that glittering Gene Tierney might be "broken." Born well to do, the daughter of a prosperous Manhattan insurance broker with an estate in Connecticut's fashionable Fairfield County, her rise was a breeze. But behind the beauty and breeding, behind the mask of confidence, she hid too much to handle alone. There was quite...