Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sensing my importance, sidled over and told me Debbie had just flown East for a few days to see Eddie Fisher. She winked and a slab of pancake makeup crashed to the floor. Waiting until my ball pen was working, she told me about Debbie's next picture for Paramount Studios, which is a thriller-diller, but I've lost my notes and I can't remember much else about it. Then Debbie walked over near us with a bunch of Puddies in tow, and I noticed her nicely tailored grey flannel dress, which fit like a soaking-wet nightgown...
White Christmas (Paramount) is a sentimental recollection of the 1942 musical Holiday Inn, in which Bing Crosby first sang the song White Christmas. From the first scene (Christmas 1944) to the last (Christmas 1954), it is blatantly the I "big musical," a big fat yam of a picture richly candied with VistaVision (Paramount's answer to CinemaScope), Technicolor, tunes by Irving Berlin, massive production numbers, and big stars. Unfortunately, the yam is still...
...even over the dawning realization that a disastrous depression is never again likely to halt the march of productivity. At the moment in history when this unique economic achievement was recognized, the U.S. lost its long security against heavy enemy attack; it became the first in the line of paramount nations to live in the knowledge that between any nightfall and morning a fifth of its people and a third of its production centers could be destroyed. Over this prospect the U.S. does not grieve or tremble. In a field of tension between unprecedented poles of security and insecurity, this...
...Sabrina (Paramount). When Hollywood's abracadabblers find a new formula for turning celluloid into gold, they overwork it every time. For Sabrina, based on Samuel Taylor's Broadway hit, Paramount's magicians used the same elements that mixed so well in Roman Holiday: Actress Audrey Hepburn, Director Billy Wilder, a switch on the old Cinderella story. Gold, in a word, is guaranteed at the boxoffice, and this is never less than glittering entertainment, but somehow a certain measure of lead has found its way into the formula...
...Stage 17 of its Hollywood lot last week, Paramount Pictures Corp. held a press preview of White Christmas in VistaVision, its new wide-screen process and the newest entry in moviedom's gadgetry sweepstakes. Viewers thought that VistaVision resulted, as advertised, in greater clarity on the screen, but few predicted sensational effects at the box office. Said one producer: "CinemaScope got there first amd VistaVision isn't novel and different enough...