Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dance (Paramount) teams Fred Astaire with Betty Hutton in a talky musicomedy that takes its plot too seriously and its stars' special talents too lightly. As a war widow fighting her husband's stuffy family for custody of her son, Singer Hutton takes refuge in a nightclub and renews an old romance with Hoofer Astaire. Boy loses girl not once but twice, the child is seized or kidnaped three times, and the story is cluttered with what seems to be all the supporting players on the Paramount...
...Drama of the Year: Paramount's Sunset Boulevard...
Last week Kramer teamed up with shrewd Sam Katz, cofounder of the Balaban & Katz theater chain, onetime vice president of Paramount Publix, longtime M-G-M executive, to form the Stanley Kramer Co., Inc. As president and executive producer, Stanley Kramer will contribute his abundant talent and his team. Board Chairman Katz will contribute his distribution know-how and $2,000,000. Once the company really gets rolling, said President Kramer, it will produce and distribute some 20 films a year...
...Hollywood Producer B. F. Schulberg, onetime production manager of Paramount Pictures...
Dark City (Paramount) is a snail-paced thriller about three tin horn gamblers pursued by an avenging psychopath. It also introduces to the screen a sullen, Bogart-style newcomer from television, Charlton Heston...