Word: lux
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Case of Dr. Laurent (Cocinor; Trans-Lux). There is no hedging, no photographic euphemism. In the 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...
...Lovemaker (Trans-Lux). Constrained by customs rooted in the Moslem and the medieval, millions of Spanish women sit behind their lattices and, as the Spanish say, "wait for the blue prince." For a pretty girl or a wealthy girl, the wait may not be long. For those who have neither looks nor money, life can be the sort of gradual death this picture painfully and vividly anatomizes...
...George Gobel-Eddie Fisher songfest was not exactly the "wonderful show" Eddie called it, but shy, impish Lonesome George again proved himself the master of the minor key-even when delivering a monologue plugging NBC color. Of all the new musicals, the best was the simplest: The Lux Show (replacing the old Lux Theater), with blonde, willowy Rosemary Clooney. Whether delivering barrelhouse or blues, Songstress Clooney's voice has a distinctive cello quality that makes her refreshingly different from the sound-alike mass...
Four Bags Full (Franco London; Trans-Lux) of black-market pork are lugged across Nazi-held Paris by Jean Gabin and Comedian Bourvil in this delightful shaggy-dog story. That the French can now joke about the German occupation is not surprising. But the movie, winner of France's "best film" Victoire, explodes with humor, testifying that its makers never stopped laughing up their sleeves when they dared not guffaw outright...
...passing of Robert Montgomery Presents is lamentable not only in light of its past glories but because it reflects the sudden high casualty rate among" TV's live dramatic shows. Others canceled for next season: the Kaiser Aluminum Hour, Alcoa Hour, Goodyear Playhouse, Armstrong Circle Theater and Lux Video Theater. Among the reasons: the best of the TV-bred playwrights are spending more time working for Hollywood; sponsors have been trying to play it safe with "surefire" subjects and scripts. ¶ Arthur Godfrey, by now widely regarded as something installed in radio and TV sets at the factory, dropped...