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...Bridge on the River Kwai. The best picture of 1957: an enthralling story of men in war; with Alec Guinness, Sessue Hayakawa, William Holden and Jack Hawkins (TIME...
...dozen best movies seemed to come in pairs: two comedies, two musicals, two war films, two problem dramas and a couple of German language pictures. In a class of its own as the year's best film: Director David Lean's The Bridge on the River Kwai, with Alec Guinness, Sessue Hayakawa, William Holden and Jack Hawkins. For TIME'S complete list, see CINEMA'S Choice...
After artfully staying out of the public eye most of the time since their marriage nine weeks ago, Old (53) Groaner Bing Crosby and his bride, Cinemorsel Kathy (Operation Mad Ball) Grant, 24, ventured forth in Sunday best for the Hollywood premiere of The Bridge on the River Kwai. Brainy Kathy, a qualified cook by virtue of a college home-economics course, disclosed that she is now studying chemistry because, "I was a fine arts major [University of Texas], and I feel I have neglected the physical sciences. It's very good mental discipline...
Marriage Revealed. Sam Spiegel, 55, Austrian-born Hollywood producer (The Bridge on the River Kwai, On the Waterfront); and Betty Benson, 27, onetime model; he for the third time, she for the first; on Nov. 26, in Manhattan...
...Bridge on the River Kwai (Sam Spiegel; Columbia) will be called a tragedy; it is. It will be called a comedy; it is. It will be called a swell adventure story, a slickly calculated piece of commercial entertainment, an angry razz at the thing called war, a despairing salute to the men war makes, an ironic masterpiece; it is in some degree all of these things...