Word: kramer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...There are three kinds of producers," says Stanley (The Men] Kramer. "Those with ideas and no money, those with money and no ideas, and those who command a sufficient amount of both." In his eight years as an independent movie producer, almost three of them with the backing of Columbia Pictures. Wonder Boy Stanley Kramer placed himself in the third category. He startled his competition and movie critics with such films as The Sniper, Champion, Cyrano de Bergerac, Home of the Brave, Member of the Wedding, High Noon. Some of these, and a few others (The Four poster, Death...
Last week tense, brooding Producer Kramer dissolved his company and, by mutual consent, ended his partnership with Columbia, although he had made only eleven of the 30 pictures stipulated in his five-year contract. The break was no surprise to Hollywoodians. who understood that Columbia's President Harry Cohn had agreed with-and perhaps urged -Kramer to close shop after finishing The Caine Mutiny and The Wild One (both still unreleased). Kramer. 40. explained: "My particular talents gravitate to making one picture at a time and then selling it ... Before I started on this multiple production, I believe...
...first functional Red cell in Federal government came into being in 1933. Others followed. The secret work of cell-members was sometimes pure spying, sometimes subtle influence of policy by advancing careerists. Accused of being early cell members were Alger Hiss, Harold Ware, Victor Perlo, John Abt, Charles Kramer, Nathan Witt, Lee Pressman, Henry Wadleigh '33, and Harry Dexter White. The last two, according to testimony, were not organizational Communists but were willing to play ball with the "apparatus." Other once-prominent government officials later accused of espionage activities were Harold Glasser, Nathan Silvermaster, V. Frank Coe and William...
...Charles Kramer, formerly associated with Senator Kilgore...
Women who do not want to be widowed can prolong their husbands' lives "with measured doses of enlightened nagging," an official of the American Cancer Society suggested at the annual meeting last week in Manhattan. Said Frank Kramer, director of field relations...