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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Near week's end Producer Susskind withdrew plans for his TV Ben Hur. Still in the works for CBS's U.S. Steel Hour: a TV play about the life of Sigmund Freud, anticipating a planned movie. The odds are nicely balanced. While the movie makers have Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre to write the script, TV has Farley Granger to play Professor Freud...
...delivery room the head, the shoulders, the torso and finally the legs of an aborning infant come into view, and seconds later the mother gathers the baby in her arms. In the first completely undisguised commercial filming of a woman giving birth to a child, French Writer-Director Jean-Paul Le Chanois recorded a scene that would seem guaranteed to outrage maiden aunts, set 15-year-olds to snickering aloud, and increase the watch-and-ward membership twelvefold. Instead, the moment is one of wonder. The picture earned an M.P.A. Production Code seal and approval of the American Medical Association...
...found the best possible formula for quieting objections to his frankly polemic theme: natural childbirth. He creates a picture that is dramatically first-rate even without the birth scene, puts it together with a blend of personal compassion and cinematic skill. In the almost fable-simple tale, Old Pro Jean Gabin plays a weary, health-broken physician who moves to a tiny mountain village in the South of France to live out his years. With him he brings his conviction, gained from years of work in the slums of Paris, that much of the pain and fear of childbirth...
Anxious angels may wonder if they will get their wings clipped by Goldilocks, the Walter and Jean Kerr musical due on Broadway this fall; even Rodgers and Hammerstein may worry about their forthcoming Flower Drum Song. But there is one show in the works that simply cannot miss. Title: Moscow-Cheryomushki. Composer: Dmitry Shostakovich. Book: by Vladimir Mass and Mikhail Chervinsky, two reliable party-line pros. Opening is scheduled for December at Moscow's Operetta Theater, but insiders last week got a preview of the vehicle that is to brighten Russia's winter season...
...when the phone rang in the Cannes hotel room of Jean Cerrone, company manager of Manhattan's touring American Ballet Theatre. The news: a twelve-ton truck carrying most of the company's gear had gone up in flames. Cerrone mumbled "Merci," went back to sleep, 15 minutes later woke up again in a horrified double take. By the time he got to the scene of the fire, all the company's wardrobe trunks had been destroyed, along with scenery and props for twelve ballets, plus orchestra scores for four. Total damage, mostly coveted by insurance: about...