Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heart attack; in Beverly Hills. After his first movie venture (with a brother-in-law, Glove Salesman Samuel Goldfish, now Goldwyn. and a young playwright named Cecil B. DeMille), Lasky joined forces (in 1916) with Adolph Zukor to form the Famous Players-Lasky Corp., which evolved into Paramount Pictures...
...bulk of film comes from the newsreel archives, which started in the U.S. in 1910 and by now, except for Paramount's stubbornly locked vaults, have been raked by the networks. Ironically, it is TV itself that has put most of the newsreels out of business and thereby shut off one source for future historians in celluloid. The networks are now salting away their own voluminous news film against the day when a show like Twenty-First Century may want to picture the quaint old U.S. at the dawn of the space...
Wild Is the Wind (Hal Wallis; Paramount) makes a reasonably honest, week-end farmer's effort to turn the warm loam of natural life. Director George Cukor, though obviously a city feller, has managed to provide himself, for the occasion, with a conspicuously green thumb. Producer Hal Wallis has provided the movie with Italy's Anna Magnani, an actress as earthy (and sometimes as mysteriously beautiful) as a potato; with Anthony Quinn, an actor so radically natural that not even 20 years of Hollywood has spoiled him; and with a screenplay by Arnold Schulman that veers with...
Depth is also the paramount problem in the crucial middle-distance area. Support will have to be found for Anderson from amongst Al Gordon, Dave Cahn, Al Percy, Dave Spinney, Dave Brahms, and Art Hoyt. None of this group has had much previous varsity experience...
...DEBUT will be made by National Theatres, second biggest U.S. movie-house chain (after American Broadcasting -Paramount Theatres, Inc.), whose 320 houses are being hurt by video competition. For $7,600,000 it will buy Kansas City Star's WDAF-TV and WDAF-AM, which U.S. trustbusters forced the Star to sell on grounds that it was monopolizing city's news...