Word: parrish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...television has forced Hollywood to unbutton its themes, the Music Hall has had to change its standards. Its record moneymakers-The Great Caruso, Mister Roberts, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers-reflect the sort of choices the Music Hall once preferred, but now Downing is accepting gamier movies such as Parrish, Suzie Wong and Where the Boys Are, explaining his selections with the sequined rationalization that they reflect "a way of life...
...foreign pictures steadily nibbling away at Hollywood's audience, most producers have plainly decided that virtue-at least at the box office-is its own punishment. So many "adult" films are being produced that Manhattan's family citadel, Radio City Music Hall, is showing pictures such as Parrish, all about sex and sadism on a tobacco farm. Even last year's top Oscar winner. Billy Wilder, signed Shirley MacLaine for The Apartment before he had a word on paper, with the pitch that he wanted to make a film about "that grand old American folk ritual...
...concoct the theories on which their contraption was based. That job had largely been done by a British baronet who published a lengthy paper on aerodynamics in 1809, nearly a century before Orville Wright made his historic 120-ft. hop. In a new book, Sir George Cayley (Max Parrish, London; 425.), Aeronautics Historian J. Laurence Pritchard, former secretary of the Royal Aeronautical Society, has put together an astonishing catalog of the accomplishments of that prolific genius...
...Parrish (Warner) is the celluloid name for Troy (Surfside 6) Donahue, who has a wheatfield of golden hair, ripply pectoral muscles and a pair of sapphire-tinted eyes -in a word, a dreamboat who by his own tally is "No. 1 on the fan mail list at the studio and No. 2 or 3 in all of Hollywood right now." Troy plays the part, as the ads put it, of an "intruder in Connecticut's Million-Dollar Mile," which sounds like moneyed exurbia and turns out to be rich tobacco country in the Connecticut River Valley...
There are minor compensations. Parrish brings Claudette Colbert back to films for the first time in five years. As Troy's mother, she is mostly wasted on Karl Maiden, her loutish husband, and on script inanities (these young people "are just trying to fight with their own identity"). But she makes a splendid animated advertisement for Sophie of Saks Fifth Avenue, whose clothes she models with crisp Technicolored distinction. And there are some heart-stirring shots of quilted green land and shimmering lakes, of whaling boats and silver-spired churches taken on location around Windsor, Old Saybrook, Mystic...