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...Roach Jr., 39, is president (his father, 66, is a director) of Hal Roach Studios, which now produces TV films. ¶ Gene Fowler Jr., 40, a film editor for nearly 20 years, last year directed I Was a Teenage Werewolf, is now producing and directing Paramount's I Married a Monster from Outer Space. Father Gene Fowler, 68, oldtime cirrhosis-be-damned newsman and biographer of the John Barrymore era, wrote Barrymore's biography (Good Night, Sweet Prince...
Another Time, Another Place (Lanturn Productions; Paramount) should provide an answer to one of Hollywood's most pressing questions: How will the recent scandal about Lana Turner's private life affect her public appeal? At a preview of this picture, when Actress Turner's name flashed on the screen, cheers rocked the galleries. The picture itself might more suitably be greeted with groans, but it is just the sort of soap opera that can be useful in laundering a reputation...
Begin with Attila in the afternoon, when Washington Street is relatively quiet and the Paramount butters your popcorn twice. Attila is an unhappy retouching of the pre-fall Roman days when the Huns manifested their destiny and scourged their way to the Tiber...
...Capitol Hill attitude was best summed up by one of the absent committee members, Montana's Mike Mansfield, who prides himself on being a leading Democratic light on foreign relations. "The Administration," said Mansfield last week, "is pushing foreign aid, and for that matter foreign trade, as paramount issues at the very moment the people are much more interested in unemployment compensation and public works." By way of showing that he stands second to none in taking care of the folks back home, Mike Mansfield put his great weight behind a $45,000 proposal to send the Flathead County...
...born in an Alabama log cabin. The Memphis Blues, written in 1909 to abet the first mayoralty campaign of Memphis' Edward H. ("Boss") Crump, started his career in jazz writing. This month, St. Louis Blues, a fictionalized film biography of Handy's life, will be released by Paramount Pictures...