Word: photographic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dropping in on one U.S. division the same day Marilyn was distracting it. Muttered he: "I did not have this much competition when I ran for the presidential nomination." At Taegu Air Force Base, her last wolf-whistle stop, Marilyn was "very pleased" to find her famed nude calendar photograph pinned up in the mess hall. "I wish I could have seen more of the boys," she purred. Returning to Japan, she was briefly bussed by her groom, ex-New York Yankee Outfielder Joe DiMaggio, who somewhat obliquely announced to her: "I've found a place in Osaka that...
Capitol Records pioneered five years ago with a Hollywood-designed item called Music Out of the Moon. It was about as distinctive as a movie sound track, but it was decorated with a photograph of a half-covered girl and billed as "music that can affect the sensitive mind in a way that is sometimes frightening . . . always fascinating." Its sales exceeded all expectations. After that, most major labels got busy...
...Banana (Harry Popkin; United Artists) brings Comedian Phil Silvers to the screen in a literal photograph of his long-running Broadway burlesque of burlesque. The sad truth seems to be that burlesque is a delicate flower: it needs a little dirt to grow in, but the censors, in this case, have carted away what little there was. Nonetheless, Comedian Silvers manures his garden energetically with the few faintly smelly old stories he has left (She: "I'd do anything to get into television." He: "It's not that easy...
...dialogue in many of these sequences, accompanied by the words of a single character, accentuates the pictorial emphasis of the film. Occasionally the striving for dramatic effect without dialogue leads to ludicrous exaggeration, as when the death of Miss Julie's mother is underscored by a black-bordered photograph, lighted candles, and the strains of Chopin's funeral march. Although the symbolism throughout the film is elementary, however, each scene has the careful composition of a painting. As a result, Miss Julie has a visual eloquence far more moving than the stilted themes of Strindberg's plot...
...sometimes wonder, who is this Fairbank who keeps creeping into your headlines with a red label? Your photograph in itself is certainly most disquieting...