Word: screens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tenuous plot has the out-of-sorts singer brought to his senses by a pretty Viennese Fräulein, nicely played by German Actress Johanna von Koczian, in her American screen debut. She is the only woman on the Continent whom Mario can trust to love him for love alone. Reason: she is stone deaf. That is, until she has that operation, "dangerously close to the brain." If, like Johanna, moviegoers could keep their ears closed and their eyes open, they might enjoy Salzburg, Rome, Capri and Anacapri in fetching color. And by letting Zsa Zsa be Zsa Zsa, Director...
...movie studios, was ushered up to a mike, and the sweet, childish voice that struggles to rise above the accompaniment was nursed through its 6,000th recording. For 16 years, barefoot Lata has been putting on sound tracks the songs that Indian actresses fake when they appear on the screen. Now, at 29, she is the undisputed and indispensable queen of India's "playback singers," with an output of 30 songs per week and more recordings to her name than any other singer in the world...
...details came out through the totalitarian screen of secrecy, and it was hard to tell how much of Red China's agricultural troubles were political, how much natural. But obviously, the disaster reports were one way to prepare Red China's 650 million for food shortages this winter. The 1959 crop yields are reported sharply below normal; the usual propaganda boasts of "record harvests in China's great leap forward" are notably missing this summer, and a People's Daily editorial growls that "an inclination to avoid hardship has found breeding ground among some cadres"-leading...
...Moran was in Minneapolis promoting a contest to find 'The Happiest Girl in America' . . . The winner will receive a screen test and a new automobile, the maker of which is his sponsor...
Porgy and Bess. Sam Goldwyn's $7,000,000 worth of jazz, color and pomp, plus Pearl Bailey and Sammy Davis Jr., falls short of what the Gershwin folk opera could have been on the screen...