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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Paramount) is a screen version of Hazel Flagg, the Broadway musical, which was in turn a retuning of filmdom's famous Bronx cheer for Manhattan, Nothing Sacred (1937) Jerry Lewis now plays Carole Lombard's movie part. Alas, Carole was prettier. She was also funnier. And Janet Leigh, playing the old Fredric March part, adds body to the fun but no flavor. Somewhere along the production line the rasp has been strained out of the raspberry, but what's left is still the pleasantest session with Jerry Lewis and Partner Dean Martin in more than several...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jul. 19, 1954 | 7/19/1954 | See Source »

...good doctor realizes his mistake a couple of days later, but by that time the fathead is in the fire. Janet Leigh, a New York reporter, has convinced her editor that it would make a great sob story if the paper granted Jerry his last wish: "to see New York before I die." Janet makes her proposition to Jerry, and Dean doesn't have the heart-he has lost it to Janet at first sight-to disillusion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jul. 19, 1954 | 7/19/1954 | See Source »

Lois Dickson senior class marshal, and Nancy Fisher, commencement chairman, will lead the procession. Mrs. John M. Maguire, college marshal, will lead the college officers and trustees, and Mrs. Janet James is the graduate students' marshal. The Harvard Band, conducted by G. Wright Briggs '31, will play at the exercises...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 237 Will Get A.B. Degrees At 'Cliffe's Commencement | 6/16/1954 | See Source »

Flying in the face of dietary fads, reducing pills and skim-milk regimens, stirringly stacked (5 ft. 4 in., no Ibs.) Actress Janet (A Girl Can Tell) Blair, who feels 17, looks 25 and is 32, handed out an astonishing prescription for chubby ladies who starve themselves in vain. Advised she: "Try overeating. That's how I stay slim. By eating as much as the average man, a woman gets the energy she needs to burn up her fat. Heavens! You're too weak to do it on a starvation diet. Shovel down big helpings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 14, 1954 | 6/14/1954 | See Source »

...sound track of a Disney True Life Adventure. Augmented by two harps, celesta, and piano, the orchestra plays swooping glissandos and tortured Puccini-like harmonies; the soprano soloist must remain throughout in a palpitating ecstasy totally incongruous with St. Francis' humble text. At least Canticle had the benefit of Janet Wheeler's lovely voice and inspired instrumental work under conductor Kalman Novak...

Author: By Robert M. Simon, | Title: Longy School | 5/10/1954 | See Source »

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