Word: oscars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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David Goldbogen, brother of the late Cinemogul Mike Todd, last week had an eye-boggling idea for dressing up the plot in Forest Park, Ill., where Mike's body lies. The proposal: a 9-ft.-tall, 2-ton, $8,000 marble statue of filmdom's Oscar, which Mike won for Around the World in 80 Days (still busy at the box offices). No inscription would mar the marble, said David, adding thoughtfully: "We would want to keep the memorial simple." But at week's end Hollywood's Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences warned that...
Later the same week, Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest will open, and both will be presented during the first month. In the fifth week, the group will add George Bernard Shaw's Heartbreak House, followed by Othello and Sam and Bella Spewack's Boy Meets Girl...
...five main roles will be taken by Jane E. Hallowell '59, playing Ruth; Vivian M. Thomas '60, as Eileen; Robert M. Scher '60, Robert Baker; Oscar K. Anderson '59, Wreck; and Jill Kneerim '60, Helen...
Bang, Bang, Bang. Tammy Grimes-because of her disheveled appearance sometimes known as Grimy Tams-insists that "nightclub singing is the hardest thing in the world to do." She makes it sound like the easiest, as she concocts a wistful chant out of Oscar Levant's Blame It on my Youth, throbs through Limehouse Blues, races with a fine, light lilt through The Springtime Cometh, a take-off an old English madrigal ("Gaily skippeth, nylon rippeth, zipper zippeth, whoop-de-do, which is to say, the springtime cometh"). For Cole Porter's urbane lyrics, her precise, finishing-school...
...Sixth Happiness (20th Century-Fox) has just about everything the mass public is said to want. It has Ingrid Bergman in a part so flagrantly sympathetic that Hollywood may not dare refuse her a third Oscar. It has Curt Jürgens, a German matinee idol who looks like John Wayne with a monocle scar, and it has the late Robert Donat, playing a sort of Chinese Mr. Chips in his most magniloquent style of maudlin. It has Cinema-Scope, DeLuxe color, 2,000 Chinese extras, a $5,000,000 budget, a $450,000 set, a running time...