Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recent years Bing has made fewer films, and has scarcely made a pass at TV. The old pipes don't give quite the same old sweet song. But Baritone Crosby is doing all right. His contract at Paramount has seven years to run. He grosses better than $175,000 a picture; record royalties bring in a steady $150,000 a year or more. He also has a million or so in real estate, shares in a profitable frozen-juice business, owns a 25,000-acre ranch near Elko, Nev. And if all else should fail, "the income from...
...Houdini (Paramount) dramatizes the life of Master Magician Harry Houdini,* famed for his escapes from strait jackets, handcuffs, jail cells and locked and sealed containers of all kinds. Unfortunately, this account of the Houdini story fails to escape from the conventional, romanticized film-biography formula...
Scared Stiff (Hal Wallis; Paramount) is a shrill blend of spooks and slapstick set on a mysterious tropical island. While trying to help Heiress Lizabeth Scott take possession of the island, Cabaret Performers Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis get tangled up with treasure-hunting mobsters and perambulating zombies. When he is not being locked in a trunk or imprisoned in a haunted castle's torture chamber, Jerry also imitates Carmen Miranda, and Dean sings (I Don't Care If the Sun Don't Shine, San Domingo). Interesting bit players: Bing Crosby and Bob Hope. For Comedian Hope...
...lost from the top or bottom of the picture, but as Metro's Dore Schary sanely said. "All you lose is air, anyway." For a few actors' heads the public would probably not argue the point. The first of the "retreads" to be shown on wide screen, Paramount's Shane and Universal's Thunder Bay, have done a huge business...
...composition-filling the frame with a satisfying picture. Western art since the time of Pythagoras has sanctioned the esthetic mystery of "the Golden Section." Applied to a rectangle, the rule evolves a geometrical figure about five by three, or 1.61 to 1-almost exactly the proportion of the Paramount wide screen...