Word: mgm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thumb (George Pal; MGM) is one of the nicest Christmas presents Hollywood ever gave the pigtail-and-popgun set. Producer George Pal has managed to mingle puppets, live actors and animated cartoons with such skill that not once can the spectator see the embarrassing seam where two sorts of cinema meet. As a piece of entertainment, the film is unusually fresh and appealing; it is kid stuff, but it will probably sell a lot of popcorn to the grownups...
...intellect? Can a middle-aged producer reap wild oats? Can a female swimmer be a submarine hostess? Can a tycoon's son carry on? Can a crooner liquidate a photographer? Last week these vital questions met these tentative answers: ¶ Marilyn Monroe, shooting her first Hollywood film (MGM's Some Like It Hot) since she left for New York and re-education two years ago, was pregnant and more intellectual than ever. Marilyn stayed coolly sealed inside the mental isolation booth that Manhattan Methodman Lee Strasberg prescribed for "getting into" a part (hers: a uke-playing songbird...
Party Girl (Euterpe; MGM) is a caricature of an old-fashioned gangster picture, done in a clever but vulgar style. All the usual features are there, but all are comically exaggerated. The Little Caesar (Lee J. Cobb) is a sentimental old sweetie-pie with a heart almost as big as his sneer, who passes out diamond-crusted cigarette cases as if they were candy bars, gets a schoolboy crush on a studio still of Jean Harlow, and in fact has only one fault. He frequently rubs people the wrong way: out. The Big Mouthpiece (Robert Taylor), with his white-piped...
...agitated by TV's "unspeakable hijacking." Examples: last year Playhouse go produced The Helen Morgan Story just in time to capitalize on Warner Brothers' Helen Morgan Story, and this month TV Producer David Susskind announced plans for a $400,000 quickie that would beat the release of MGM's $12.5 million Ben Hur. Said Wald: Hollywood ought to fight back with movies that "in a tasteful manner will show their vast world audiences the disadvantages of buying, using or owning" products made by sponsors of offending TV shows...
...Reluctant Debutante (Avon; MGM) in its stage incarnation was the kind of drawing-room comedy that critics called "pleasant" for want of anything worse to say about it. But transferred to the screen and run through a high-speed Mixmaster of comic invention by Rex Harrison and Wife Kay (Les Girls) Kendall, this lukewarm cup of tea has been turned into cheery summer punch...