Word: screens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...animated rag doll bounded onto the television screen, ogled the camera lens, wagged a pair of aileron ears at the audience and wrapped his rubber legs around the lilt of a song. Ray Bolger, the greatest U.S. comic dancer and a veteran of 30 years in show business, was back at work in TV-and just in time to inject some merriment into TV's procession of tired clowns. In a $1,500,000 musical potpourri called Washington Square, a sentimental paean to Manhattan's self-consciously picturesque Greenwich Village, Hoofer Bolger is making his second attempt...
Died. Francis Loftus Sullivan, 53, oleaginous (260 Ibs.) London-born menace of stage (Witness for the Prosecution) and screen (Great Expectations), who began trouping (1921) with London's Old Vic, won the 1955 Antoinette Perry Award for the year's best featured performance in his role of defense counsel in Witness; of lung cancer; in Manhattan...
...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...
Around the World in 80 Days. Producer Mike Todd, with the help of Jules Verne, 46 stars and $6,000,000, has created what is certainly the most spectacular travelogue ever seen on the screen (TIME...
Author Guthrie is still the sensitive, loving researcher more than he is the true novelist. With all its virtues, his story is so commonplace and predictable that the reader cannot help projecting it onto a big screen, with Gary Cooper doing a wonderful job as Lat Evans. But throughout These Thousand Hills there are fine evocations of what the country was like, the authentic sense of place that is Guthrie's trademark. Even the standard brushes with Indians and rustlers have a quality of this-is-how-it-was, and the speech rings as true as the slap...