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...certain to follow MGM's lead. Paramount, probably in the best shape of any major studio, is not planning to renew the contract of Producer-Director George (A Place in the Sun) Stevens, whose perfectionist methods were too costly, and has dropped its top box-office draw, Alan Ladd, whose price is too high. Explained one studio spokesman: "What you've got to do today is make pictures look like four million dollars-but cost under a million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Crackdown | 7/21/1952 | See Source »

...Harvard baseball history that the Crimson met Yale with more defeats that victories. Yale then trounced Harvard, 25 to 15 and 18 to 4. In track Haggerty took a first in the ICAA mile run-but the favored team later lost to Yale. Sophomores Geoffrey Platt and Robert Ladd tried hard, but the crew lost to Yale again...

Author: By Davis C.d.rogers and Michael Maccosy, S | Title: '27 Enjoys 'Last Supper', Writes Pornography Visits Mediums, and Emerges Mature Seniors | 6/17/1952 | See Source »

Winners were Jim Ladd of Eliot House in the shot put with 46 feet; Herb Collins of Dudley in the javelin with 150 feet; and Brint Donaldson of Kirkland in the high jump with 5 feet, 6 inches...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kirkland Wins Sculls: Puritans Take Track | 5/16/1952 | See Source »

...Mountain (Hal Wallis; Paramount) harks back to the most persistent historic figure in recent horse opera: General William Clarke Quantrell, the Rebel guerrilla. This time, in Technicolor, Alan Ladd foils the greedy designs that the script lays to Quantrell: a scheme for carving out his own empire in the West...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Three of a Kind | 1/21/1952 | See Source »

Playing a true-grey Confederate captain on his way to join Quantrell (John Ireland), Ladd shoots a gold assayer to even an old score, then takes captive a prospector (Arthur Kennedy) and his fiancee (Lizabeth Scott), who want to turn him over to the sheriff. He hands the prisoners to Quantrell. Gradually, as he falls for Yankee Sympathizer Scott, Ladd joins the prisoners in a desperate fight against the guerrillas and their Indian allies. Finale: like Heroes Gable and Cooper (see above) Ladd evens things up in a man-to-man tussle-with pistols and knives, on horseback, afoot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Three of a Kind | 1/21/1952 | See Source »

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