Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...atomic bomb . . ." ¶ Japan's 1,139-year-old Buddhist Shingon (True Word) sect became the first in the country to form a labor union with priests as members. Twelve shaven-headed apprentice priests last week joined office clerks in the "Temple of the Paramount Summit Labor Union" and drew up a contract complete with a strike clause. Main purpose: job security and better working conditions...
...standard "B" producers, have turned almost entirely to TV filmmaking. ¶20th Century-Fox is spending $2,000,000 to prepare for TV deals much like Warner's. One planned series will be based on refuibished oldies, e.g., My Friend Flicka. ¶Universal-International, M-G-M and Paramount are watching the competition with an accountant's eye. Said U.-I.'s President Milton Rackmil: "Any decision [to plunge into TV] hinges on the profits." Major clue to Hollywood's interest in TV deals lies in the booming success of ABC's tie-in with...
Mambo (Ponti De Laurentiis; Paramount) is offered as "the exalting story of a slum girl who attains integrity through her experiences with men and her love of the dance." Still, it might be advisable to have a look at the picture before showing a print to the kiddies. Giovanna (Silvana Mangano) is a Venetian shopgirl. In the daytime she displays her glamorous glass for the customers; at night she is ready for broader interests. But Mario (Vittorio Gassman), her boy friend, is primarily interested in a phony buck, any way he can get it. When Silvana meets a no-count...
...Best picture: The Caine Mutiny (Columbia); The Country Girl (Paramount); On the Waterfront (Columbia); Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (M-G-M); Three Coins in the Fountain (20th Century...
...bathing suit dutifully splashing around a Japanese bathhouse as Navy Pilot Bill Holden's wife in The Bridges at Toko-Ri (a movie that does little for Grace except establish the fact that she has a better figure than normally meets the eye). At about the same time, Paramount's producer-director team of William Perlberg and George Seaton got word that Jennifer Jones, scheduled to play the title role in their next picture, The Country Girl, had become pregnant. They asked M-G-M to lend them Grace. This time M-G-M said no. Grace still...