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...long fight to divorce moviemaking from exhibiting, the Justice Department won the third round of its bout with Hollywood's Big Five (TIME, May 17, 1948, et seq.) Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc., following the lead of Paramount and RKO, last week agreed to split into two new companies. One will produce and distribute films, the other will show them. Under the consent decree, the three Warner brothers, Harry, Albert and Jack, and other members of the family will be permitted to hold stock in only one of the companies. To increase competition in certain cities, Warner also agreed that...
...Branded (Paramount) takes place in a Technicolored Old West where men are men and Alan Ladd is Alan Ladd. More intricately and outlandishly plotted than most westerns, it differs from the usual Ladd movie by giving its hero a real reason for displaying his torso...
...twice married and twice divorced, Griffis is a tall, shrewd and amiable investment banker who made enough of a fortune, before getting into statecraft, to spend his winters aboard his yacht off Florida. At one time he controlled Madison Square Garden and ran Paramount Pictures, was also one of the Democratic Party's most generous campaign contributors...
...film critics, enjoying their annual late-December pastime of picking the screen's best of the year, seemed to agree that the two best movies of 1950 were Paramount's Sunset Boulevard and 20th Century-Fox's All About Eve. The National Board of Review put Sunset Boulevard first, voted Gloria Swanson, in her sensational screen comeback, the year's best actress. The New York Film Critics put All About Eve first, singled out Scripter-Director Joseph L. Mankiewicz as best director and Star Bette Davis as best actress. By citing Gregory Peck as best actor...
...Music (Paramount) is a long, tired musicomedy so closely tailored to Bing Crosby's measure that he could play it in his sleep, and, in fact, appears to be doing just that. Typed again as a lazy, breezy dodger of responsibility, Crosby this time is a famous Broadway lyricist-composer who just won't settle down to work on Producer Charles Coburn's new show. Coburn hires prim Secretary Nancy Olson to discipline Bing. Love blooms, misunderstandings loom, Crosby croons, and the show goes on (with guest stars including Groucho Marx, Dorothy Kirsten and Peggy...