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...veteran camera technician named Friend Baker, who jiffy-built a stereo-camera by lashing together two standard 35-mm. Mitchell cameras geared to shoot "in sync." Early in 1951 Natural Vision, as the Gunzburgs called their company, began to peddle its process to the big studios. Fox, Columbia and Paramount said no; Metro took an option and let it drop...
...Overseas royalty began trickling in. Among the first: Paramount Chief Mwanawina II of Barotseland, representing all tribal chiefs of Northern Rhodesia. Outfitted with a replica of the claw-hammered coat and gold-striped trousers worn by his father for the coronation of Edward VII, the chief made the first 300 miles of the trip to London by barge, the rest by Constellation. Also arriving: Queen Salote Tupou of the Pacific Island protectorate of Tonga, one of the three reigning queens in the world (the others: Britain's Elizabeth, the Netherlands' Juliana), and definitely the largest...
...bowler"), a prolonged wink from Songstress Ethel Merman (I Get a Kick Out of You), a running patter of Comedian Bob Hope. Some Hope-isms: "It is a great pleasure to be here, entertaining our President. Of course, I had to sell all my Paramount stock before I could go on ... We were supposed to have smoked tongue for dinner tonight, but Senator Morse was not available . . . I see Senator McCarthy is here tonight [he wasn't]-with his food taster ... I first met the President ten years ago in North Africa, where he was a general...
Stalag 17 (Paramount), the 1951 Broadway hit about a Nazi prison camp, is as rowdily entertaining on the screen as it was on the stage. In the play, Authors Edmund Trzcinski and Donald Devan drew on some of their experiences while they were interned with 40,000 other prisoners of war, mostly Russians, Poles and Czechs, in the real Stalag 17 near Krems, Austria. But any similarity between the actual Stalag and its dramatic counterpart is mostly coincidental. In the movie, the fictional events range from suspense (Who is the Nazi spy posing as an American prisoner in Barracks...
...boss of the filmed program (cost: $27,500 a week), Ann Sothern has to be practical about her art: "It's a business of compromise. Time is of the essence. Cost is paramount. If you're trying...