Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Somebody Loves Me (Paramount) is a humdrum musical that strings 20 songs, including Way Down Yonder in New Orleans, On San Francisco Bay and Wang Wang Blues, on a story line "suggested" by the show-business careers of Husband & Wife Team Benny Fields and Blossom Seeley. According to the picture, popular Songstress Blossom (Betty Hutton) marries unknown Vaudevillian Benny (Ralph Meeker). But Benny resents being "Mr. Blossom Seeley," and insists on making good on his own before he does a duet with Blossom. With his wife's help, he finally makes the grade in the big time, and they...
When Shivers returned to the executive mansion, Stevenson handed him a statement: "The base from which I must necessarily start is the Supreme Court decision (in 1950) holding that the paramount interest in oil discovered beneath these submerged lands is vested in all the people of the United States" (i.e., in the hands of federal agencies). "I accept and abide by this ruling in common with all Supreme Court decisions." Shivers read the statement glumly, said: "This is going to be rough in Texas. I don't know what's going to happen...
Just for You (Paramount) casts Bing Crosby as a paragon of Broadway show producers. When he is not putting on one smash hit after another and showing his leading men how to sing songs and make love to the leading lady (Jane Wyman), he is throwing gay first-night penthouse parties, where he croons such ditties as Zing a Little Zong. But Widower Bing is so busy being famous that he is a flop with his teen-age children. His daughter (Natalie Wood) winds up in jail with her drunken governess. His adolescent son (Robert Arthur) resents Bing...
Jumping Jacks (Hal Wallis; Paramount) continues the service misadventures of Comics Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. Having already created havoc in the Army (At War with the Army) and the Navy (Sailor Beware), they now inflict their frantic talents on the airborne infantry...
Other studios are almost certain to follow MGM's lead. Paramount, probably in the best shape of any major studio, is not planning to renew the contract of Producer-Director George (A Place in the Sun) Stevens, whose perfectionist methods were too costly, and has dropped its top box-office draw, Alan Ladd, whose price is too high. Explained one studio spokesman: "What you've got to do today is make pictures look like four million dollars-but cost under a million...