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...shoot Advise and Consent, which deals with the passions and principles set in motion when the President nominates a new Secretary of State. Washington, for all its worldliness, was entranced with the junta that Preminger brought in from Hollywood: President Franchot Tone, Vice President Lew Ayres, Majority Leader Walter Pidgeon, Powerful Southern Senator Charles Laughton, Secretary of State-designate Henry Fonda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood: Advise und Consent | 9/29/1961 | See Source »

...often neglected Professor's Daughter and Beautiful Lady Scientist department that the film excels. Joan Fontaine plays a World-Renowned Psychiatrist with fierce regard for tradition: she is snappish and mean to Walter Pidgeon, the World's Greatest Scientist right up to the moment she is eaten by the shark. Balance is provided by blonde Barbara Eden, as cute a canape as ever broke a giant squid's heart. Tradition must sometimes be broken if an art form is to grow: she plays Pidgeon's secretary, not his daughter. Her function is to proceed about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Squid Food | 7/21/1961 | See Source »

...need only be added that at one point Pidgeon is forced to slap, in the manner of General Patton, a malingering crew member played by Frankie Avalon, a vapid juvenile customarily billed as a singer. In view of the song Avalon emits while the credits are being shown, Pidgeon clearly shirked his duty. Patton would have fed the squirt to the squid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Squid Food | 7/21/1961 | See Source »

Take Me Along. Eugene O'Neill's Ah, Wilderness! makes a nostalgic evening of musical theater, with Walter Pidgeon, Jackie Gleason, Eileen Herlie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Feb. 1, 1960 | 2/1/1960 | See Source »

Take Me Along. The musical version of Eugene O'Neill's Ah, Wilderness! is a nostalgically pleasant experience. Walter Pidgeon, Jackie Gleason, Eileen Herlie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Jan. 25, 1960 | 1/25/1960 | See Source »

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