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About Mrs. Leslie (Paramount). Shirley Booth, with her gilded Oscar (Best Actress of 1952, for her work in Come Back, Little Sheba) scarce beginning to peel, has already laid aside her dignity and gone for a summer's dunk in a tub of sentimental lather. For this film, based on a Vina Delmar novel, is pure soap opera, and it is the kind of suds that leaves a sticky ring around the mind. Shirley plays a part that is wallowingly reminiscent of John's Other Wife...
...President made it clear that he considered "that attitude of reverence" the College's most valuable contribution to its students. "This relationship to God--the attitude of reverence--this is the paramount thing," said Pusey...
...there has never been such a run on flowing robes, phylacteries and false beards as there is in the studios just now. Prop men from Paramount are scouring Egypt for frogs to make a likely plague (Exodus 8:31, for non-biting insects to substitute for lice (Exodus 8:16), and they are making the necessary preparations to turn the Nile to blood (Exodus 7:19)-all for The Ten Commandments. In Hollywood Columbia executives are busy scanning six weeks' worth of background shots (using 17,500 Egyptian extras) for Joseph and His Brethren, and laying plans to follow...
...Nita Naldi). Although responsible for such other triumphs as The King of Kings (1927) and The Sign of the Cross (1933), DeMille never before has given Scripture such a generous helping hand; the new Ten Commandments will cost an estimated $6,000,000 to make, and will have what Paramount's publicity department calls "the largest film set in motion-picture history." DeMille feels that the present trend toward Bible movies is a symptom that "the world is beginning to realize how deep the trouble is that it is in, and that there is only...
...last twelve months, as a result, Free-Lance Actor Bogart has played a surprising variety of important roles. He has not completely divorced himself from gangster parts-he is presently considering a hoodlum role in The Desperate Hours, a Midwestern crime story which he tried to buy himself before Paramount outbid him. Nevertheless, he has not had a gat in his hand in a long time. He not only plays a wealthy Wall-Street type (complete with Homburg, furled black umbrella, Brooks Brothers suit and briefcase), but wins the hand of lissome Audrey Hepburn in Paramount's forthcoming Sabrina...