Word: oscars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Pianist Oscar Peterson and his trio gave a fast-fingered version of Tenderly sprinkled with suave dissonances, the modernist crowd was ready to call it the high point of the festival. But the younger set shrieked louder when hollow-cheeked Gerry Mulligan bellowed and coaxed The Lady Is a Tramp through his big baritone sax. The concert finally ended after midnight with a 20-man jam session that sent the strangest sounds ever heard in Newport floating up to the stars...
...executives (Samuel Goldwyn et al.) and three motion-picture trade groups. In 1951 the House Un-American Activities Committee questioned 18 of the 23 about Communism, and they refused to answer. The other five boldly ignored the committee's subpoenas. All were blacklisted. Each of the 23, including Oscar-winning Actresses Gale Sondergaard and Anne Revere and Oscar-winning Writer Michael Wilson, demanded $2,250,000 in "damages for loss of employment opportunity" and $1,000,000 in punitive damages...
About Mrs. Leslie (Paramount). Shirley Booth, with her gilded Oscar (Best Actress of 1952, for her work in Come Back, Little Sheba) scarce beginning to peel, has already laid aside her dignity and gone for a summer's dunk in a tub of sentimental lather. For this film, based on a Vina Delmar novel, is pure soap opera, and it is the kind of suds that leaves a sticky ring around the mind. Shirley plays a part that is wallowingly reminiscent of John's Other Wife...
...work he has written. As a teacher he has the unique distinction of having four of his students as holders of the Pulitzer Prize. Two of these, Paul H. Buck and Fred Shannon, received their awards for doctoral theses done directly under his supervision. The other two are Oscar Handlin, winner in 1952, and his son, Arthur...
Actress McCambridge. a talented player with long experience in radio and TV (she won a supporting-actress Oscar in All the King's Men), achieves a believable, blank-mask expression of insanity. The other performers seem bewildered most of the time by the direction of Nicholas Ray (Knock on Any Door, Flying Leathernecks), who works with the misguided brilliance of a myopic Pygmalion. Almost every separate part of the picture comes to life in one way or another, but none quite fits into the whole. At one moment a character is declaiming like a choragus; at the next...