Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Molly (Paramount) brings The Goldbergs to the screen after a 21-year career in radio, vaudeville, comic strip, legitimate theater and television. As always, The Goldbergs spices its doughy lumps of linguistic comedy and tearful drama with an authentic flavor of Jewish family life in The Bronx, binds them with the hopes, frailties and loyalties common to all families...
...constantly betrays its quickie origin, leaves the field wide open to such forthcoming pictures as RKO's The Korean Story, Eagle Lion Classics' Korea Patrol, Columbia's A Yank in Korea. Also on the way, celebrating other wars and warriors: MGM's Go for Broke, Paramount's The Submarine Story, 20th Century-Fox's The Frog Men, Republic's Fighting U.S. Coast Guard, Universal-International's Up Front and Air Cadet, RKO's Jet Pilot and Flying Leathernecks...
...long fight to divorce moviemaking from exhibiting, the Justice Department won the third round of its bout with Hollywood's Big Five (TIME, May 17, 1948, et seq.) Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc., following the lead of Paramount and RKO, last week agreed to split into two new companies. One will produce and distribute films, the other will show them. Under the consent decree, the three Warner brothers, Harry, Albert and Jack, and other members of the family will be permitted to hold stock in only one of the companies. To increase competition in certain cities, Warner also agreed that...
...Branded (Paramount) takes place in a Technicolored Old West where men are men and Alan Ladd is Alan Ladd. More intricately and outlandishly plotted than most westerns, it differs from the usual Ladd movie by giving its hero a real reason for displaying his torso...
...film critics, enjoying their annual late-December pastime of picking the screen's best of the year, seemed to agree that the two best movies of 1950 were Paramount's Sunset Boulevard and 20th Century-Fox's All About Eve. The National Board of Review put Sunset Boulevard first, voted Gloria Swanson, in her sensational screen comeback, the year's best actress. The New York Film Critics put All About Eve first, singled out Scripter-Director Joseph L. Mankiewicz as best director and Star Bette Davis as best actress. By citing Gregory Peck as best actor...