Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Harry Morris Warner, 76, longtime (1926-56) president of Hollywood's Warner Brothers studios, eldest of four brothers who started a theater in New Castle, Pa. with $150 worth of projection equipment, built a company with 1957 assets of more than $78 million; of a cerebral occlusion; in Los Angeles. Under Polish-born Harry Warner, the brothers pioneered talking pictures (Al Jolson in The Jazz Singer in 1927), acquired a stable of stars that included John Barrymore, Gary Cooper, Bette Davis, Leslie Howard, Paul Muni, Edward G. Robinson, James Cagney, Rin-Tin-Tin. Two years ago, when Warner...
...entire Festival and Academy are under the artistic direction of John Houseman. It is inspiring to see a man who can command huge fees from Hollywood and television give up so big a part of each year to Shakespeare out of sheer love, devotion and hope. He is giving us productions that flow swiftly; yet the only adverse criticism I have of his general approach concerns the shows' running-time. There are fewer cuts than used to be the case, but he still seems reluctant to give us the full texts. So what if a production does run over three...
...Customs agents, Sammy was frisked to his skivvies, found toting a .22-cal. pistol. Explained he: "I'm an honorary deputy sheriff of Los Angeles County." Unimpressed by the quaint mores of the county, which allows its more than 1500 honorary deputy lawmen-many of them Hollywood types who couldn't outdraw their great-aunts-to bear arms at will, the agents turned Sheriff Sam over to local police, who double-checked, decided he could go his way and take his funny little pistol with...
...Guild, only four months old, is the creation of 49-year-old Trumpeter Cecil F. Read. In 1956 Read led a revolt of Hollywood's Local 47, A.F.M. He protested the handling of the Music Performance Trust Funds, which collect phonograph-record and TV movie music royalties to use for unemployment benefits for the entire A.F.M. membership. Read complained that although performances by the 15,000 Hollywood musicians provide the Trust Funds with more than 50% of their revenues, only 4% of the revenues ever gets back to Local 47. Expelled from the A.F.M.. Trumpeter Read recruited musicians...
...short. Indiscreet is a conventional comedy of what Hollywood supposes to be upper-class manners, but it is flicked off in the high old style of hilarity that U.S. moviemakers seem to have forgotten in recent years. Director Donen deserves a cash-register-ringing cheer. Actress Bergman, always lovely to look at, is thoroughly competent in the first comedy role that she has played for Hollywood. And Gary Grant is in a class by himself when it comes to giving a girl a yacht...