Word: mgm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kiss Me Kate (MGM) might be subtitled "The Taming of the Show." Based on the Broadway musical based on Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew, which was based on an Ariosto comedy based on an old folk tale, the picture is pretty far off any kind of base...
Half a Hero (MGM) is a comedy that sets out to tell a few home truths about middle-class life in the U.S. suburbs. For those who are suffering the general financial trials of raising a family and buying a house, and would like company, Half a Hero provides a pretty satisfying answer to the eternal question of how to keep a soft heart in an era of hard currency...
...Faced with a choice of exhibiting MGM's cinemusical Kiss Me, Kate in either 3-D (with glasses) or the flat version, Manhattan's gigantic (6,200 seats) Radio City Music Hall this week chose the old-fashioned flattie. "We feel," said Managing Director Russell V. Downing, "that the picture is just as entertaining in two dimensions. If it had seemed that 3-D would have added any plus value ... we would have shown it the other way." Although the Music Hall cautiously withheld comment on 3-D itself, the decision is a blow to any serious future...
...Actress (MGM) was an expert comedy when Actress Ruth Gordon wrote it for the stage (as Years Ago, it ran for six months in 1947), and it is an expert comedy now that she has rewritten it for the screen. However, it is no more than expertise. Playwright-Actress Gordon is too cool a professional ever to let sentiment interfere with business, which in this instance, when she is writing about her own girlhood, means that a true feeling is never allowed to foul up a good line. Nevertheless, The Actress offers an unusually pleasant evening at the movies...
...Mogambo (MGM) is jampacked with Technicolor shots of such splendid animals as lions, leopards, gazelles and Ava Gardner. The curator of this photogenic zoo is Clark Gable, pictured as a tough, conscienceless "white hunter" who suffers a predictable attack of morality as the movie ends. Filmed in Africa, Mogambo borrowed its plot from the 21-year-old Red Dust (which also starred Gable, with the late Jean Harlow playing the Ava Gardner role). The dialogue seems to date back to an even earlier era than the original film...