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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...National Board of Review placed A Streetcar Named Desire sixth. Its first choice: A Place in the Sun, Paramount's cinematic version of Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Winners | 1/7/1952 | See Source »

...That's My Boy (Paramount...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Winners | 1/7/1952 | See Source »

...Place in the Sun (Paramount...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Winners | 1/7/1952 | See Source »

...Favorite Spy (Paramount) casts Bob Hope as both a cowardly burlesque comedian and a debonair international spy.^ U.S. security agents persuade the comic to impersonate the spy, pack him off to a Tangier that is teeming with sinister villains (Francis L. Sullivan & Co.) and baited with a beautiful but treacherous lady spy (Hedy Lamarr...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Dec. 31, 1951 | 12/31/1951 | See Source »

...Paramount's sharpest ballyhoo experts descended last week on unsuspecting Bellaire, Ohio (pop. 12,500) to case the town for the year's corniest movie publicity gag. By the studio's reckoning, Bellaire's Mrs. Anne Kuchinka had beaten out more than 250,000 letter-writing contestants in persuading Paramount to stage the opening of its latest Bob Hope picture, My Favorite Spy, in her modest living room. Subject of her winning letter: how her husband paid for his dentistry education by working in a glass factory. On Nov. 27, while searchlights sweep the grateful Ohio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Big Doings in Bellaire | 11/19/1951 | See Source »

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