Word: mccrea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stars in My Crown (MGM) nostalgically recalls life in a small Southern town at the turn of the century. Its rambling, episodic story, adapted by Joe David Brown from his own novel, follows the town parson (Joel McCrea) through a typhoid epidemic, a friendly joust with a local skeptic (the late Alan Hale), a feud with a young, unproven doctor (James Mitchell), a brush with the Ku Klux Klan on behalf of a Negro parishioner (Juano Hernandez...
...lush Park Avenue Theatre at 59th reopens Thursday with Joel McCrea in Stars in My Crown. Radio City Music Hall provides Errol Flynn in Rudyard Kipling's Kim as accompaniment to its annual Christmas stage extravaganza, including this year "The Nativity" and "Star Bright." Jose Ferrer's Cyrano de Bergerao adds extra holiday performances at the Bijou December 25 through January...
...Home and Foreign Missionary Society; Dr. McGruder Ellis Sadler, president of Texas Christian University; and the University of Pennsylvania's President Harold Stassen. Treasurer: General Electric's President Charles E. Wilson. As operating head, with the title of general secretary, the delegates elected Dr. Samuel McCrea Cavert, who has held the same job at the Federal Council of Churches since...
...such Civil War epics as The Birth of a Nation and Gone With the Wind is part of Hollywood's folklore. Westerns, popular since early silent days, are still steady moneymakers. The latest trend was forecast last spring by MGM's The Outriders, in which Confederate Joel McCrea escaped from a Yankee prison camp, took to bushwhacking over broad stretches of western scenery. Then came 20th Century-Fox's Two Flags West (Confederate prisoners of war sign up to fight Indians), Warner's Rocky Mountain (Errol Flynn tries to win the West for the South...
...picture's early promise of gentle parody is paid off first in juvenile whimsy and folksiness, finally in a mild flurry of standard ridin' & fightin'. Neither Technicolor nor all the warmth of McCrea's amiable personality can conceal the fact that the film is short on the basic ingredient of any western: action...