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...year appointment on the Senate. He named Dr. T. Keith Glennan, 44, president of Cleveland's Case Institute of Technology, to fill a vacancy on the five-man AEC. A Yale-trained electrical engineer who once worked in Hollywood as studio manager for Paramount and Sam Goldwyn, Glennan was director of the Navy's underwater sound lab at New London, Conn, during World War II. He had no special interest in or knowledge of atomic energy ("My interests have been in administration and in people," says Glennan), but Harry Truman hoped that Glennan would not be "personally obnoxious...
Sunset Boulevard (Paramount) is a story of Hollywood, mostly at its worst, brilliantly told by Hollywood at its best. A daring film by ordinary movie standards, it is the last collaborative fling by Charles Brackett & Billy Wilder* at a specialty they have made their own: playing hob with convention and getting away with it. It also brings Actress Gloria Swanson back to the screen, after a nine-year absence, in a performance that puts her right up in the running for the first Oscar of her 37-year career...
...confident illusion that her return to the screen is imminent. While she undergoes a strict course of beauty treatments in preparation for her triumph, Holden sneaks away regularly to collaborate on his own script with a good friend's fiancée (Nancy Olson), a reader at Paramount. He and the girl fall in love. But by that time, he has become so enmeshed in the Sunset Boulevard snare that he cannot escape...
Silent Movie Vamp Gloria Swanson, 51, making a Hollywood comeback in Paramount's forthcoming Sunset Boulevard, revealed that she is also having a go at the literary life. Still at work on a book about "glamour over 40" for Prentice-Hall, she has agreed to write her autobiography for Doubleday...
...Lawless (Paramount) is not only a good movie but, considering its makers, it is also as unexpected as a slum documentary by Cecil B. DeMille. Produced by William H. Pine and William C. Thomas (the "Dollar Bills"), longtime Hollywood specialists in low-budgeted blood & thunder hokum (Captain China, El Paso), it is an honest, unpretentious picture about racial prejudice and mob violence...