Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Aching Lips. Her great moment came when bestselling Author Elinor Glyn spotted her on a Paramount set and demanded Clara, then 21, for the screen adaptation of her lightweight novel It. Clara Bow explained It as the ability to give your undivided attention to the person you were speaking to. That was not the definition her fans bought. To them, It was s-x, and Clara was It's embodiment. From 1927 to 1930 she was among Hollywood's top five box-office attractions. She made as many as eight pictures in a single year, commanded a salary...
...bind with some bad guys who have killed Pa Elder and are trying to take over the town. After the gunsmoke clears, the wrongdoers have what they deserve; the raucous Elder boys have a new image; and Katie's empty rocking chair rocks happily away to underline what Paramount Pictures calls this movie's "great theme of the civilizing maternal force at work in a still savage land...
...usual, De Gaulle pitted his own paramount need to unload France's high-priced farm surpluses against his partners' abiding desire for progress toward political integration. It was a familiar script, and it had always turned out the same way-France's way. Not this time. When French Foreign Minister Couve de Murville threatened Non unless the Common Market extended its community-wide farm-price agreements for five more years, the other members of the Six chorused Non! Non! Non! This time, they demanded, France could have its way on farm prices only by agreeing to major...
...million-that Klein plans to add 100 more theaters to the chain in the next three years. The expansion wil not only take National into the metropolitan areas of the East for the first time but will bring it much closer in size to front-running American Broadcasting-Paramount, which operates 407 movie houses. All of the new expansion will involve drive-ins or theaters in shopping centers. Says Klein: "The big thing for the family today is to do everything in a package-go shopping, have dinner, go to a movie. Nobody wants to schlepp all the way downtown...
...million at the box office for Goldfinger, $50 to $60 million for My Fair Lady. Besides, most of the big chains now depend on other fields for most of their income: Loew's has become essentially a hotel business, Stanley Warner concentrates on girdles (Playtex) and AB-Paramount is heavily in radio and TV. Though it has diversified into real estate, CATV and savings and loans, National more than the others still depends on the theaters as its "eating business...