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Word: propsed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gerard Philipe, as the raffish Fan Fan, is quite a match for his leading lady in scene stealing. Lacking her more obvious props, he forges ahead with the urbane skill that has made him one of France's top actors. Those who saw Devil In The Flesh will wonder at...

Author: By Robert J. Schoenberg, | Title: Fan Fan The Tulip | 10/26/1953 | See Source »

The big price drop in metals will help U.S. manufacturers cut their costs. But it will work a corresponding hardship in the producer nations. In Malaya, where tin is one of the main props of the economy, 54 tin mines have shut down in the last few months, and more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: More Deflation | 8/17/1953 | See Source »

Matter of Costs. Aside from taxes, producers have their own reasons for making pictures overseas. Some movies (African Queen, Moulin Rouge, Roman Holiday) need authentic foreign settings. By making pictures in Europe, a few of the big producers, e.g., MGM, have put their blocked foreign currency to work. Many independent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHOW BUSINESS: Through the Loophole | 7/6/1953 | See Source »

Much of this material needlessly piles extra melodrama on the movie's sufficiently melodramatic subject so that the picture at times almost collapses from its own plot weight. Director & Co-Author Giuseppi (Bitter Rice) De Santis also injects an extraordinary amount of sex appeal into his picture, notably by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, may 4, 1953 | 5/4/1953 | See Source »

Also, Dic Neue Zeitung, the American controlled newspaper in Germany, has the readership and general admiration of over 200,000 subscribers. As the font of U. S. expression, it has dignity and great selling value for freedom and is worth its annual bill of 3.1 million. To end either the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Attack On Freedom | 4/30/1953 | See Source »

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