Word: mgm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Little Hut (MGM) tries to make the moviegoer believe that when three men are marooned on a desert island with Ava Gardner, nobody does anything but talk. The point of Andre Roussin's Frenchy little farce, and the reason the play ran for four years in Paris and three in London, was that even on a desert island it is possible for a man to be "civilized"-i.e., share the wealth, even when his only asset is a wife. In the play the heroine made the merry most of her polyandrous predicament, but poor Ava gets less bed than...
...Commandments (Paramount) 2) Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (20th Century-Fox) 3) Around the World in 80 Days (Mike Todd; United Artists) 4) The Seven Wonders of the World (Independent) 5) Funny Face (Paramount) 6) Designing Woman (MGM) 7) Cinderella (Disney) 8) The Shrinking Man (Universal) 9) The Tattered Dress (Universal) 10) Twelve Angry Men (United Artists...
...Wings of Eagles (MGM) is a massively expensive sentimental gesture, involving about $2,600,000 worth of hearts and flowers, prepared by Director John Ford and Actor John Wayne in tribute to the memory of their friend, a prominent screenwriter named Commander Frank ("Spig") Wead, who died in 1947. Starting adult life as a naval aviator, Commander Wead joined the daredevil team that brought the Schneider Cup to the U.S. for the first time in 1923.* Wead himself once set five world records with Lieut. John Price, and at 30, he became (according to studio publicity) the youngest squadron commander...
...Slander (MGM) takes a candid peep into the keyhole press, which in recent years has made a multimillion-dollar business out of character assassination. On the face of it, the picture is just Hollywood's way of swatting one of its more irritating fleas: most of the people who have been smeared by the scandal magazines are movie stars. But in a deeper sense the moviemakers have served the public too. For in the pursuit of the principal villain they also take a swipe or two at his accomplices-at the readership which settles in cloudlike millions...
...Iron Petticoat (MGM) is practically a remake of the old Greta Garbo-Melvyn Douglas comedy about how Lenin's glass-of-water theory is vanquished by Hollywood's slipper-of-champagne theory, and the world is saved for black lace undies. This version, however, might more accurately have been titled Ninotmuchka. Katharine Hepburn, doing her smooth-cheeked, trim-legged best to look like a Soviet with sex appeal, plays a MIG-wig in the Red air force who flies to the West in protest over a missed promotion. Bob Hope, a major in the U.S. Air Force...