Word: mgm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dial M, and Paramount for three more films, which have not yet been released. All are surefire hits, too: Country Girl (with William Holden and Bing Crosby), Rear Window (with James Stewart), Bridges at Toko-Ri (with Holden). She is now working on Green Fire (with Stewart Granger) for MGM; this summer she returns to Paramount for Catch a Thief (with Cary Grant), follows that with The Cobweb for MGM...
Flame and the Flesh (MGM) works hard at making Lana Turner into a Hollywood version of a realistic Italian actress...
...failure of these hastily-sketched characterizations might be permissable if the central figure, played by William Holden, had any depth or truth in him. But MGM's conception of a youthful engineer who doubles as vice-president in charge of research is more embarrassing than inspiring more Hollywoodish than Ciro's. Everything that the movie does to make Holden the hero produces the opposite reaction. His nuzzling wife (June Allyson) is sickening in her devotion, and his slimy son is repugnant in his Little League uniform...
...Rhapsody (MGM...
Executive Suite (MGM) is loaded with enough big names to tear the marquee off the average movie house. William Holden, June Allyson, Barbara Stanwyck, Fredric March, Walter Pidgeon, Shelley Winters, Paul Douglas, Louis Calhern, Dean Jagger and Nina Foch-all appear in this adaptation of Cameron Hawley's bestselling novel about big businessmen locked in a grim struggle for power. And when all the stars together set up a fiercely competitive twinkle for attention, the moviegoer is apt to feel somewhat like a switchboard operator with ten calls blinking at once...