Word: samsons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jesus? "The catechism of the Jew is his calendar," said famed 19th Century Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch. There are five major festivals in the Jewish year, but the weekly observance of the Sabbath-from Friday's sunset to Saturday after sundown-as a day in which no work may be done, except for self-protection or to save life, is the core of Jewish religious practice. Rabbi Bernstein takes pains to point out how this custom of a day of rest "hewn from the social consciousness of a little desert tribe became in time an established practice...
...skintight budgets and rigid shooting schedules, Cecil B. DeMille is one of the few producers who can still pursue Hollywood's ancient slogan: "The more you spend, the more you make." For the climax of Samson and Delilah (TIME, Dec. 26, 1949), he smashed his enormous temple three times before he was satisfied that he had achieved just the right touch-and the box-office returns justified his little extravagance. For the big scene of The Greatest Show on Earth, now shooting, Producer DeMille's script ordered a train wreck with "a shattering impact of shattering steel...
...Samson and Delilah: "Moral: never let a dancing girl get in your hair...
...attention to the critics. Only one of the National Board of Review's ten best (Twelve O'Clock High) turned up among the top ten in Variety's list of 1950's biggest box-office grossers. The public's favorites, in order of popularity: Samson and Delilah, Battleground, King Solomon's Mines, Cheaper by the Dozen, Annie Get Your Gun, Cinderella, Father of the Bride, Sands of I wo Jima, Broken Arrow, Twelve O'Clock High...
...Samson Raphaelson's Hilda Crane brings the star of Streetcar back to Broadway for a fine portrayal of a girl who loved a college professor but married a lawnmower manufacturer. Raphaelson and Miss Tandy, the critics claim, are excellent...