Word: hollywoods
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Ramon Novarro, 69, silent film star, who in the 1920s vied with Rudolph Valentino as the screen's great Latin lover; of injuries suffered when he was bludgeoned in the bedroom of his home; in Hollywood Hills, Calif. Though only 5 ft. 8 in. tall, the handsome Mexican was a giant at the box office. In his 14-year career, he played opposite such leading ladies as Greta Garbo and Myrna Loy, appeared in scores of films, including The Prisoner of Zenda (1922) and Ben-Hur (1926), before fading out in the mid-1930s...
...ever offered, Lee J. Cobb gives the finest performance of a lengthy and distinguished acting career. A graduate of the militantly proletarian Group Theater of the late '30s, he was the quintessential Willy Loman in Broadway's first production of Death of a Salesman. Conventionally cast as a Hollywood heavy in many of his countless films (among them: Thieves' Highway, On the Waterfront), he almost invariably brought glimmerings of insight to even the most routine parts. At the age of 57, he is quite clearly ready for the challenge of Lear. His king is blind, incurably foolish, a man eventually...
...HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER. Alan Arkin's magnificent performance as the mute in this Hollywood adaptation of Carson McCullers' novel is the only real glimmer of poetry in an otherwise determinedly prosaic film...
There still persists the notion that Hollywood's greatest art forms are the private-eye picture, the screwball comedy and the musical. Judging from the three latest melodic revivals, Funny Girl, Finian's Rainbow and Star, it may be time for the return of Topper and 5am Spade...
Ackerman said that the members hope to supplement their libraries with old films provided by the film industry. "Although Hollywood has piles of these old films stored away, they are somewhat reluctant to dig them out and use them for other than commercial purposes," he said...