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Assignments began to pour in as soon as he and his wife settled in Los Angeles in 1938. One of the first was to design a new studio for Paramount. In preparation for it, Pereira characteristically learned so much about the movies that he became Paramount's art director?and won a 1942 Oscar for his trick photography in Cecil B. De Mille's Reap the Wild Wind. Later, as a full-fledged producer, he made two successful films for R.K.O...
Wives and Lovers perkily proves that the eternal triangle is still good for laughs. The triangle consists of Author Van Johnson, Wife Janet Leigh and Literary Agent Martha Hyer, who sells Van's novel to a publisher, a book club, a Broadway producer and a movie company ("Paramount wants it for Burton, O'Toole, Olivier, Loren and Fabian"). Not content with her 10%, she tries to collect the author...
...idea flopped for the simple reason that most reporters have the public personality of an Underwood portable. So it came as no real surprise when ABC announced that Hagerty would now become a vice president in charge of corporate relations for the network's parent company, American Broadcasting-Paramount Theaters, Inc. In that post, he will most likely serve as a spokesman for A.B.-P.T. before Congress and the FCC, where a politician is a politician...
...Frank Sinatra Jr. has gone summer-touring with the Tommy Dorsey band, and with his nasal intonation and easy delivery almost convinces listeners that they are back at the Paramount Theater, circa...
...that will make him strong, handsome and irresistible to women-for what woman could resist a sun-lamp tan, a Shinola coiffure, a high-roll shirt collar, and an electric blue suit with black lapels? Thus decked out, God's gift to coeds invades the Purple Pit (a Paramount updating of the old campus hangout) to dazzle the denizens. He bullies some fullbacks, sings some songs in a Jerry-built baritone, and tells the chicks to call him Buddy Love. All this is too much for Student Stella Stevens, and off they go to a parking spot in Beverly...