Word: mogambo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Sam Zimbalist, 57, M-G-M producer whose fondness for spectacle resulted in such films as Quo Vadis, King Solomon's Mines, Mogambo; of a heart attack on the set of one of the biggest splurges in cinema history-M-G-M's $10 million-plus Ben Hur; in Rome...
...Golden Arm found itself with an unexpected hit on its hands. Decca is now high on the charts with the soundtrack music of Around the World in 80 Days by Victor Young. Other companies have rushed into vinyl with the sound tracks of such uncertain musical bets as Mogambo, The Pride and the Passion, Hot Rod Rumble. By and large, present-day studio composers seem a trifle more sophisticated than the practitioners of "Micky Mouse" music in the '30s, when whole orchestras simply hurtled into the bass clef when a character tumbled downstairs. Columbia's The Bridge...
Veteran of four childless marriages, Cinemale Clark (Mogambo) Gable, 54, surprised his recent bride (TIME, July 25), sometime Cinemactress Kay Williams Gable, 37, by lighting up a cigar at a Hollywood soirée and declaiming on the glorious institution of fatherhood. Forgiving Gable for his inability to keep their secret (ETA: next May), Kay chirped: "He certainly went all ham then . . . Besides, he's started to pamper me, and I've never been pampered in my whole life." (Kay once charged that her former husband, the bibulous sugar heir, "Daddy" Adolph B. Spreckels II, beat her with...
Married. Clark Gable, 54, durable Hollywood screen lover (Mogambo, Soldier of Fortune); and Kay Williams Spreckels, 37, onetime model and Hollywood starlet turned socialite millionheiress; he for the fifth time (his most recent: British-born Sylvia Hawkes, onetime Lady Ashley, who divorced him in 1952), she for the fourth (her most recent: Sugar Heir Adolph Spreckels Jr., whom she divorced in 1952 after accusing him of beating her with her own slipper); in Minden...
...hearing. The few ballads have the only genuine distinction, however. They seemed to linger on after the rattle of the fast numbers had died away. The HDC has also censored itself, with the result that Great to Be Back! now is a family show. Except that one verse of "Mogambo Rag" has been lost, the clean-up served only to boost the entertainment value. Since there has been more cutting than adding, the whole evening is considerably shorter at Peabody this week. It is also much brighter...