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...sits and kneels; the Bonomi Italian dolls ($17.98 to $24.98) feature straight Audrey Hepburn haircuts, come equipped with skating and riding outfits. Stuffed animals, especially the big ones, are selling better than ever. They range from a Teddy Bear in Borgana fur to a hound dog inspired by Elvis Presley, and Steiff's life-size reindeer ($250). For the military minded, hot sellers are Marx's "Rin-tin-tin Fort Apache" and "Captain Gallant" ($6 apiece) and, among games, Parker Brothers' "Scoop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: The Electronic Age of Toys | 12/3/1956 | See Source »

This doublebill at the RKO Keith might lead one to believe that Hollywood is still bitter about what the North did to the South in the Civil War. In mistitled Love Me Tender, a new star from Tennesse, Elvis Presley, who looks like a cross between Estes Kefauver and Rudolph Valentino, takes up the battle for the rebs and symbolizes his resentment in several awkward gesticulations with his thighs...

Author: By Bruce M. Reeves, | Title: Love Me Tender and The Desperadoes Are in Town | 11/27/1956 | See Source »

...picture concerns the plight of a band rebel cavalry men who steal $12,500 from the Union Army four days after the war has ended. Presley is cast as a crazy-mixed ("mad like a dog") up youth who kicks his wife, sneers at his mother, and shoots his brother. It is a difficult role for inexperienced Presley and everytime he tries to act, he muffs the part. And, as often happens in big-name productions, the stars are overshadowed by a minor characer who plays his part to perfection. In Love Me Tender the spotlight is captured...

Author: By Bruce M. Reeves, | Title: Love Me Tender and The Desperadoes Are in Town | 11/27/1956 | See Source »

...calling Mary Martin (in Born Yesterday) "TV champion," TIME, Nov. 5 implies that she walloped Elvis Presley (on The Ed Sullivan Show) in the weekly Sunday-at-8 fracas. According to Trendex pulse-takers, Elvis outwriggled Mary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 26, 1956 | 11/26/1956 | See Source »

...first screen appearance, with four songs and a secondary role as the hero's little brother in an otherwise routine south western, Elvis Presley all but steals the show from such better-knowrn players as Richard Egan. Debra Paget and Mildred Dunnock. Hollywood, moreover, foresees a box-office bonanza when the millions who buy Presley's pressings (Heartbreak Hotel, Hound Dog) go to see his first picture-and that will really be a steal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 26, 1956 | 11/26/1956 | See Source »

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