Word: screens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although cinemascope is more hinderance than help and the transfer from stage to screen is still awkward, Carousel remains a touching and beautiful story...
...cost: $9,500) was not built for such frivolity. The military uses are obvious. Blacked-out cities, whose warmth cannot be eliminated, will stand out conspicuously on Eva's screen. An underground factory will be betrayed by heat rising from...
...while he is at it, he should learn to direct the director. His days are spent in a nerve-shattering series of quick dissolves from the lawyer to the tax man to the agent to the press, and no matter what he looks like on the screen, his very best scenes had better be played at the bank. "The matinee idol of the Eisenhower era," cracked a Hollywood reporter, "is a man in a grey flannel suit...
...executive. "It sounds like an insect." Just then his secretary announced that William Holden, a West Coast newsman, was on the wire. That took care of the name, now all Bill needed was a part. Fate got busy again. Over at Columbia, Director Rouben Mamoulian saw Bill's screen test, grabbed him for the title role of Golden Boy, the Clifford Odets play about a young pug who could hit like Marciano and fiddle like Paganini...
That Kisser. The fight for parts went on, and in fighting for himself, Bill found himself fighting for others. He was elected a vice president of the Screen Actors' Guild, and slugged it out with the big studios in many a negotiation, with quick wit and a sharp mind that grew more analytical the more it saw of Hollywood. At the same time, Bill came to understand the problems of the big executives, and to wish a little wistfully sometimes that they were his to solve. Force of Arms, Submarine Command, Boots Malone-his face, though it was slowly...