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...Street, Rebel Without a Cause, Marjorie Morningstar-to keep her career moving upward. It began in Santa Rosa, Calif., when four-year-old Natalie-then Natasha Gurdin-went with her Russian-immigrant mother to watch the filming of Happyland. Even then she was a raving beauty, and Director Irving Pichel plucked her out of the crowd to give her a bit part. In her next, Tomorrow Is Forever, she swiped scene after scene from Orson Welles, and soon established herself as a $1,000-a-week child star. Roared Orson: "She's terrifying...
Died. Irving Pichel, 63, longtime stage and cinemactor (Cleopatra), more recently a topnotch director (Martin Luther); of a heart ailment; in La Canada, Calif. After the success of Luther, Pichel went on to a more difficult subject, a week before his death completed Day of Triumph, the first full-length film on the life of Christ since Cecil B. DeMille's 1927 King of Kings...
...master hand of Louis de Rochemont is obvious in such touches as market place scenes and the ceric effect of coweled monks sitting, mummy-like in their stalls, singing Gregorian chants. And director Irving Pichel controls the pace, never allowing the action to falter or interfere with the film's message...
...Motion Picture Writers' Guild, saying that it was "controlled by Communists." As for the Screen Directors' Guild, of which he is a member, Wood said that it had a strong pro-Communist bloc, composed of Directors John Cromwell, Frank Tuttle, Edward Dmytryk and Irving Pichel...
Chicago's Northwestern University announced a course on "Scenic Design" by able, sleek-haired Harvardman Lee Simonson. Cinemactor Irving Pichel was invited to University of California at Los Angeles to teach "The Art of Acting." Biggest celebrity beat was scored by small Mills College in Oakland, Calif. To summer students Mills offered "Civilization, Literature and Politics," conducted in French by Novelist Jules Remains, "Verse Writing" by Poet William Rose Benét, tennis instruction by Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman, four-time U. S. Women's Singles champion...