Word: logan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Verna Felton plays a low-comedy crony of Spring's. Verna recently had a bit part in the movie Picnic, and when the film was on location in Kansas she got more attention from the natives than all the rest of the company. Director Joshua Logan was perplexed: he had never heard of December Bride. Rosalind Russell observed: "I've got to look into this TV thing...
Although a couple of good performances can conceivably outweigh the defects of a whole picture, they are not enough to keep Picnic from being dull. Not even the direction of Joshua Logan can do that. This is the first film which Logan has made in many years, so it is possible that his lack of familiarity with the medium led him on to approve such foolishness as the picnic scenes. At any rate, the eminent director's mere association with the picture is only another proof that the whole production is pretty well a general waste of talent...
...recently-upper-middle class people, and he will envelop them in a fine steam bath of banalities, in strong but clotted family feelings. Given a really sharp situation, such as Jerry's family met in a conclave over his possible marriage, and Chayefsky can orchestrate it-and Joshua Logan conduct it-with precise, phonographic humor. But the strong point of the playwright becomes the weak point of the play: the small talk and small talkers seem mere padding that not so much interrupts a vibrant story as substitutes...
...chooses. Next month Marilyn will head back to Hollywood to start her first movie under the new contract. She will play an emptyheaded, wriggle-hipped blonde, but with acting possibilities, in an adaptation of William Inge's Broadway hit Bus Stop (a Monroe-approved play), directed by Josh Logan (a Monroe-approved director...
Tenley E. Albright '57, American woman's figure skating champion, left Logan Airport for New York City last night to join the U.S. Olympic team which flies today for Cortine D' Ampezzo, Italy, the site of the 1956 winter Olympic Games...