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...pullers featured male dreamboats of all ages, indicated that teen-agers are calling the moviegoing public's tune, with nary a cinemactress in the top ten for the first time since the Herald started its balloting 26 years ago. Scratched in the past year: Marilyn Monroe and Kim Novak. The new all-male marquee names hailed as dollar signs by exhibitors: 1) Rock Hudson, 2) John Wayne, 3) Pat Boone, 4) Elvis Presley, 5) Frank Sinatra, 6) Gary Cooper, 7) William Holden, 8) James Stewart, 9) Jerry Lewis, 10) Yul Brynner...
Part of the trouble with this movie is Kim Novak. This is not to say that Miss Novak is the world's worst actress, but only that she is miscast in any role requiring dialogue. This would not be a serious fault if she were really beautiful. Sinatra drops Rita, his meal-ticket, for Kim's virginal, Alburquerque wholesomeness. The movie does not explain why he would want to commit such an ironically self-defeating...
...narcotic. Using what the psychiatrists call "the melodic striptease," he peeled yards of satin from Bewitched, I Get a Kick Out of You and The Lady Is a Tramp−smearing nostalgia and responding to each lyric with subtle emotion. It was Frankie's guest crew (Kim Novak, Peggy Lee, Bob Hope) who somehow failed to return the charm and sincerity he oozed, though Hope was spasmodically funny: "The State Department is sending me to Asia to spread the American flu." Frankie Boy's most effective helpers appeared with him earlier in the week on the Edsel Show...
...accept Kim Novak, Khrushchev, and even Chief Justice Warren on your covers, but I'm afraid I couldn't stand your Althea Gibson cover around the house...
...Milan's La Piccola Scala (her second such disappearance this summer), said she was going back to Italy, explained: "I'm tired." In Hollywood, irked by a long-term contract with Columbia Pictures that calls for a humiliating $1,250 a week, straw-haired Kim Novak refused to show up for a film, was suspended by her exasperated bosses just in time to catch a hopperful of publicity as her latest film, Jeanne Eagels, opened in Manhattan...