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After a year of waiting for temperamental Cinemactor Mario (The Great Caruso) Lanza to get in the mood to start work on The Student Prince, M-G-M lost its corporate patience, told lawyers to go ahead with its suit against the chubby Mario for $700,000 in production costs to date plus $4,500,000. the loss in anticipated profits. His probable replacement in the star role: Crooner Vic Damone, who will soon be released from the Army...
Bright Road (M-G-M), a drama of Southern Negro life, spins a slight, sentimental story about a pretty, fourth-grade schoolteacher (Dorothy Dandridge) and a handsome principal (Harry Bellafonte) who, through kindness and understanding, reform a rebellious, eleven-year-old pupil (Philip Hepburn). The picture tells its story simply and straightforwardly. Unfortunately, for all its charm, it often seems unreal. The writing and direction are stilted, things have a too-well-scrubbed look, and the characters frequently appear stiff and selfconscious. In the main roles. Nightclub Singers Dandridge and Bellafonte, making their movie debuts, are at their...
Sombrero (M-G-M), an excessively picturesque romantic drama with a Mexican setting, seems to have just about everything in it except Quetzalcoatl and Pancho Villa. Among its ingredients: three love stories involving three sets of dashing caballeros (Ricardo Montalban, Vittorio Gassman, Rick Jason) and beautiful señoritas (Pier Angeli, Yvonne de Carlo, Cyd Charisse), a bullfight, a cockfight, a feud between two villages, bastardy, incurable illness, a fiesta, a beauty contest, a contested will, gypsy witchcraft...
Rosalind's best bit of acting was done off-camera. Dissatisfied with her treatment at Universal, she wasted no time brooding. M-G-M offered her a part in Evelyn Prentice, but first she had to find some way of getting a release from Universal. Rosalind made an appointment with Carl Laemmle Jr., then Universal's general manager. Because she had been told that he liked beautiful women, she put on an old dress ("It had a wide boat-neck that showed all my collarbones"), greased her hair with Vaseline, wore an unbecoming hat and dirty...
Battle Circus (M-G-M), a war movie with a Korean background, is dedicated to the indomitable human spirit," but it seems to be composed mostly of indestructible Hollywood heroics. It has a few authentic scenes depicting the helicopter rescue of wounded men and the operation of a mobile hospital unit under enemy fire. But most of its casualties are romantic...