Word: mooned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...naughty dialogue. The Moon is a nice little picture. Its amorous skirmishes are verbal rather than real. Author F. Hugh (Kiss and Tell) Herbert calls it "a provocative comedy of purity." It has also been described as a bedroom farce set in a living room...
...Moon Is Blue (Preminger-Herbert; United Artists) brings the 1951 Broadway comedy hit about sex and virtue to the screen as a pleasant, entertaining movie that is notable chiefly for the way it frankly uses, for the first time on the screen, such words as "pregnant," "seduction," "virgin" and "mistress...
...minor film comedy, The Moon Is Blue has already raised a major censorship rumpus. On the ground that its dialogue is too blue, the Roman Catholic Legion of Decency (which gave the play a "B" or "unobjectionable for adults" rating) has given the movie a "C" or "condemned" rating. Last week New York's Francis Cardinal Spellman, in a letter to pastors of churches in his archdiocese, denounced the picture as "an occasion of sin" and as violating "standards of morality and decency." Cardinal Spellman urged Catholics to boycott it when it opens at two Manhattan theaters on July...
Moonlight Playing Time (Frankie Froba; Decca LP). Oldtime Jazz Pianist Froba has an easygoing keyboard approach. His selections-Moonglow, How High the Moon, Stardust on the Moon, Moonlight on the Ganges, Moonlight Saving Time, It's Only a Paper Moon, Moon Over Miami and Blue Moon-should just about exhaust the subject...
Born. To Barbara Bel Geddes, 30, actress of stage (The Moon Is Blue) and screen (I Remember Mama), and Windsor Lewis, 34, summer-theater producerdirector: their first child, a daughter; in Manhattan. Weight...