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...sigh of relief when at last the royal one escapes into a commoner's arms (Olivia de Havilland and a handsome pilot in 1943's Princess O'Rourke; Vera-Ellen and a tap-dancing reporter in 1953's Call Me Madam). As the princess in Paramount's new picture, Roman Holiday, the newcomer named Audrey Hepburn gives the popular old romantic nonsense a reality it has seldom had before. Amid the rhinestone glitter of Roman Holiday's make-believe, Paramount's new star sparkles and glows with the fire of a finely...
Hollywood's first inkling of this magic quality came when a screen test ordered by Director William Wyler was viewed by Paramount's brass. It showed Audrey playing the princess part a little nervously, a little self-consciously. But Wyler had played a sly trick on the newcomer by ordering the British director who made her test to keep his cameras turning after the scene was over. When the word "cut" rang out, Audrey sat up in her royal bed, suddenly natural as a puppy, hugging her knees and grinning the delighted grin of a well-behaved child...
...Manhattan, the tradesheet Variety listed the top-grossing pictures for last month, in order, The Charge at Feather River (Warner) ; Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (Warner) ; Shane (Paramount) ; This Is Cinerama (Cinerama Productions); Dangerous When...
...debate, took only 45 minutes in the Senate. By last week the same men were apprehensive. Treasury Secretary George Humphrey disapproved of the bill, and into his office trooped a covey of hand-wringing moviemen to urge him to change his mind. While such potent Hollywood brass as Paramount's Barney Balaban, 20th Century-Fox's Spyros Skouras and Columbia's Jack Cohn were in mid-argument, the Secretary's phone rang. Humphrey answered it. Then he told the distinguished lobbyists that the President had just issued a memorandum of disapproval. He was killing...
...Nugget, a Diamond. Paramount had bought Come Back, Little Sheba, and it now made-for Hollywood-the daring decision to let Shirley, who was unknown to moviegoers, play in the movie the same role that she had already played to perfection on Broadway. She flew to the West Coast, shot the movie in a single month, and scored a complete and effortless conquest of the movie colony...