Word: moulins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Married. Jose Ferrer, 41, actor-producer-director of stage and screen (Cyrano de Bergerac, Moulin Rouge, The Shrike); and Songstress Rosemary Clooney, 25 (Come On-a My House); he for the third time, she for the first; in Durant, Okla., six days after Ferrer's previous wife, Broadway Actress Phyllis Hill* 32 (The Fifth Season), divorced him in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico...
Matter of Costs. Aside from taxes, producers have their own reasons for making pictures overseas. Some movies (African Queen, Moulin Rouge, Roman Holiday) need authentic foreign settings. By making pictures in Europe, a few of the big producers, e.g., MGM, have put their blocked foreign currency to work. Many independent producers, finding it hard to raise money in the U.S., have stretched their dollars further abroad. And such unions as Roy Brewer's Film Council (TIME, April 27) have helped boost film costs skyhigh; labor costs overseas are anywhere from 20% to 50% below the U.S., and foreign sets...
...place off Connecticut Avenue, and moved them back five feet to make room for a Parisian street scene, complete with sidewalks and sidewalk cafes. Carpenters built a 30-by-50-ft. dance floor over the lawn, covered it with a sideshow tent, which was decorated as and called the Moulin Rouge. Pressrooms, male and female, were set up with tickers and telephones...
...Paris ballroom, Moulin-Rouge, it was like old times for two waifs of the political storms. Expatriate Songstress Josephine ("The U.S. is not a free country") Baker, with a basketful of orchids slung over her shoulder, warbled I'm Looking for an Old Friend. When she spotted one in Charlie ("I have been the object of lies and propaganda") Chaplin, she just had to dash over to his table and give him a great big kiss...
...Moulin Rouge. A richly Technicolored film about the life of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (TIME...