Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...market with their singing, the industry's goslings have lately turned to the menacing practice of writing and warbling their own tunes. Paul Anka, 17, a Canadian boy with a voice like a grouse's cry and a compositional style to match, wrote and recorded (for ABC-Paramount) an amatory yawp of pain entitled So It's Goodbye, saw it become a favorite of the jukebox set. A carrot-haired New Jersey girl named Beverly Ross, 22, deserted the chicken farm where she grew up, traveled to Manhattan, made a hit record with her own song called...
...first blink, Boris Morros seemed unlikely for the part. With his late-Picasso haberdashery, borsht-and-bagel accent, and a personality as outgoing as a trombone, he had small chance of being inconspicuous among the grey and shadowy cadres of Soviet espionage. Also, as music director for Paramount theaters and Paramount Studios, later as an independent movie producer, he was a conspicuously successful man in a business that has no passion for anonymity...
...Variety's listing of Hollywood's top ten moneymakers for November: 1) In Love and War (20th Century-Fox), 2) Houseboat (Paramount), 3) The Last Hurrah (Columbia), 4) South Pacific (Magna), 5) South Seas Adventure (Cinerama), 6) Gigi (M-G-M), 7) Party Girl (M-G-M), 8) Windjammer (De Rochemont), 9 The Defiant Ones (U.A.), 10) Home Before Dark (Warner...
Lately, many Mexicans have been demanding that Pemex be run as a business, with normal profits for reinvestment in development. But López Mateos is almost forced by his natural nationalistic inclination to keep the state paramount and Pemex its old, slow-moving self. He might also be inclined...
Houseboat (Paramount), according to the advancemen, is "a story of Togetherness," a warm, human comedy of American family life, written with "true realism." Father (Gary Grant) is "charming and debonair"-but unfortunately he has been away from home for several years. Mother is rich and beautiful-but unhappily she is a bad driver and gets killed in a car crash. The children (Charles Herbert, Mimi Gibson, Paul Petersen), as the scriptwriters seem to think, are all that any American parent could hope to have-"carefree, gay, and at times in need of psychiatric care...