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...M-G-M Parade (Wed. 8:30 p.m., ABC). Scenes from Garbo movies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Program Preview, Apr. 9, 1956 | 4/9/1956 | See Source »

Forbidden Planet (M-G-M). In recent years, though many a Thing has landed on the movie screen, the Space it came from has always, all too obviously, been located between a scriptwriter's ears; and the science in the fiction has generally been of a sophomore sort that gives a loud wolf-whistle at the curvature of the universe. In this nifty interstellar meller, however, the gadgets are so much more glamorous than any girl could be that in many scenes the heroine is technologically unemployed. The special effects should convince any wavering space cadet that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Apr. 9, 1956 | 4/9/1956 | See Source »

Meet Me in Las Vegas (M-G-M). "They have everything in Las Vegas"-or so they say in Las Vegas. If there is anything missing, nobody can prove it by this picture. In less than two hours, as the moviegoer goes hotfooting after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Apr. 2, 1956 | 4/2/1956 | See Source »

...able to wangle an invitation. Columnists Hedda Hopper and Sheilah Graham were also miffed to be off the list. The only invitation to a newsman went to Look Staffer Rupert Allan, but only because he is another of Grace's old friends. Not even Grace's M-G-M Studio Boss Dore Schary, who wears his pride on his sleeve, was slated to be a member of the wedding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Keeping It Dignified | 3/26/1956 | See Source »

...gallery of top pop writers with recent hits to their credit: Bob Merrill, 34, who turned out three top-ten hits in 1954-55 (Mambo Italiano, Make Yourself Comfortable and Tina Marie), has now gone Hollywood in a big way with an M-G-M option to produce as well as score five to ten musicals in seven years. For his first, a version of Anna Christie to be called A Saint She Ain't, he has written 16 songs, which he characterizes as "very lofty." Brash Tunesmith Merrill believes cliches are the secret of pop success...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: They Write the Songs | 3/26/1956 | See Source »

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