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...celebrities who handed them out, were almost ignored in the razzle-dazzle. With seven Oscars, The Bridge on the River Kwai swept the field for best picture, best director (David Lean) and best actor (Alec Guinness). Relative Newcomer Joanne Woodward (The Three Faces of Eve) was named best actress. Sayonara provided both the best supporting actor (Red Buttons) and supporting actress (Miyoshi Umeki...
Some theater owners still take heart from the rising revenues of big-budget films released late in 1957 (Sayonara, The Bridge on the River Kwai), urge Hollywood to lay off the potboilers and shoot the works on the big movie. Exactly, says Veteran Independent Samuel Goldwyn (Guys and Dolls). Goldwyn believes that within a year Hollywood will be producing only half as many pictures as now, but adds, "They will be better pictures," sees the industry heading for a "healthier condition than it has ever known...
Cornered in Hollywood by a persevering newsman, Cinemale Marlon (Sayonara) Brando chose to speak on an actor's right to privacy: "It's not a matter of being entitled to privacy-it's an absolute requisite. The trouble is, everyone's life in this country is public property. Anyone who objects to the intrusion of his private life is considered to be idiosyncratic, bizarre, uncooperative and dishonest." Uncooperatively, Brando would mumble not a word about his marriage or his pregnant wife, Variable Starlet Johanna ("Anna Kashfi") O'Callaghan Brando, who keeps uncooperatively insisting that...
...late John Hodiak in the show. "I didn't register beyond the sixth row," he admits. But later, Garner landed a small part in TV's Cheyenne, and on the strength of it, Warner Bros, signed him to play Marlon Brando's Marine buddy in Sayonara...
...Sayonara (Warner) is a modern version of Madame Butterfly which has gained in social significance but lost its wings-Puccini's music...