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...Vadis (MGM) is the costliest movie ever made-$6,500,000* worth of grandeur, violence, faith and fleshpots, glittering with Technicolor and set against the epic clash of Christianity and paganism in Nero's Rome. The film has more lions (63) than most movies have actors; its 30,000 extras outnumber the working population of Hollywood; its army of technicians spent 24 days stoking the conflagration of Rome, which burned only nine days for Nero himself. For sheer size, opulence and technical razzle-dazzle, Quo Vadis is the year's most impressive cinematic sight-seeing spree...
...right to do the things I do." Cesana reached his goal of TV lover by the usual circuitous route. Jesuit-educated Renzo was precocious enough at 16 to have his first play produced by Roberto Rossellini. He reached the U.S. in 1934 as a writer-actor for MGM, which was then making a series of Italian-language films. He has spent the past 15 years in & out of radio, advertising and publicity. In his few movie bit-parts, he is almost always cast as a priest. As a further comfort to U.S. housewives, he is also whispering his romantic message...
Texas Carnival (MGM) turns Red Skelton and Esther Williams loose in a familiar but cheerful Technicolored antic. They play a carnival sideshow team mistaken for a pair of multimillionaires at a grandiose Texas resort hotel...
Bannerline (MGM) is a limp little melodrama about a brash cub reporter (Keefe Brasselle) who, to cheer up the dying days of an idealistic teacher (Lionel Barrymore), bestirs a town to clean up its gangster-ridden government. Cast inevitably as a crotchety but lovable tyrant, Actor Barrymore gets a chance to play a deathbed scene which, running intermittently through the whole picture, must be the longest on record...
...signing of her contract with MGM...