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...Aeronautics Authority's first chairman) under Franklin D. Roosevelt, Noble swung the biggest deal in radio history when he bought the old Blue Network (later renamed the American Broadcasting Co.) for $8,000,000 in 1943. In 1951 he traded his 58% stock interest in the network to Paramount in a $25 million share swap, still serves as ABC-Paramount's finance committee chairman...
...Knew Too Much (Paramount...
...Birds and the Bees (Paramount...
...Proud and Profane (Paramount) is another rematch between those reliable romantic antagonists: the roughneck and the lady. Both are in uniform this time, and their I-hate-you-I-love-you conflict is fought on the beaches and bedrooms of the South Pacific during World...
...Knew Too Much (Paramount), a remake by Alfred Hitchcock of his 1935 thriller, is almost buried beneath the weight of Technicolor, Vista-Vision and an endless Storm Cloud Cantata performed by the London Symphony Orchestra and the Covent Garden Chorus. Indulging his taste for contrast, Hitchcock takes an American family-so glossily normal that it might have popped out of a refrigerator advertisement-and sets it down in the eternal grime of Marrakech, Morocco. The family: Jimmy Stewart, a surgeon from Indianapolis; Doris Day, his songbird wife; Christopher Olsen, their typically cute son who thinks North Africa looks just like...