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Raintree County, with Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, and a whole flock of northern Gone-With-the-Winders plays at lukewarm epic-making at the Astor, to epic length. MGM spent millions...
...told delighted newsmen: "That's our daughter, and both me and the missus were born in London." He said Johanna had moved to Cardiff with them when she was 13, got a job in a butcher's shop, later was shipped to Hollywood by a talent scout. (MGM, which likes Johanna-Anna in her off-shoulder sari, first hedged, then admitted her identity.) Said Papa O'Callaghan huffily: "She never mentioned Mr. Brando in her letters...
...some fine landscape photography filmed in yet another new process, which is in no way distinguishable from Cinemascope. If a few million dollars less had been spent, if an hour had been cut from the first part of the film, and if a literate writer had been hired, MGM might have come up with a tolerably decent movie. But as a rival to Gone With the Wind--which it obviously is supposed to be--Raintree County just will...
...Girls (MGM) will unquestionably be remembered by millions as La Girl, and Kay Kendall is her name. Up till now she has been famous only as that girl who blew the trumpet in Genevieve and in real life got married to Rex Harrison (TIME, July 1); but with the release of this picture she stands up on her own true feats to be counted as a major star. She is probably the most beautiful and deft comedienne the British have produced since the late Gertrude Lawrence...
...whizzed along over the Southern California desert at more than 1,000 m.p.h. to break the sound barrier, smilingly received a certificate of membership in the exclusive "Mach Buster's Club." Scheduled for this week: a Sacramento press conference at which every Californian from Governor Goodwin Knight to MGM's Leo the Lion expects him to announce his candidacy for governor...