Word: screens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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DEEPLY DISAPPOINTED THAT TIME'S DEC. 26 STORY ON "WISDOM" MAGAZINE WAS PRESENTED TO YOUR READERS WITH SUCH INACCURACY AND INDIFFERENCE. I AM NOT AN "EX-MOVIE PRESS-AGENT." I AM A FORMER SCREEN WRITER AND NATIONALLY SYNDICATED COLUMNIST ; MY LAST FILM ASSIGNMENT TOOK PLACE MORE THAN FIVE YEARS AGO ; SINCE THEN I HAVE BEEN DEVOTED ENTIRELY TO PREPARING AND DEVELOPING "WISDOM...
...Producer David O. Selznick sold eleven of his feature-length films (including The Paradine Case, Notorious, The Farmer's Daughter) to National Telefilm Associates for $1,000,000. At week's end Columbia Pictures jumped on the TV bandwagon by leasing 104 of its old films to Screen Gems, its own TV subsidiary...
...extremes: Lowell Thomas and Tibet. Except for repeated shots of Mr. Thomas Sr. bathing (rear view) and growing a beard (front view), the Thomas' have kept pretty well out of camera range. However, the narration by Lowell Thomas Jr. which accompanies the monks and mountains that flash across the screen manages to keep Tibet pretty well out of range. Sample line: "This mule is driven by a chap named Lulu and what a lulu...
...first act of the Metropolitan Opera's new Don Pasquale, Baritone Frank Guarrera peeks behind a screen where Coloratura Roberta Peters is making an onstage costume change. "Brava," he sings with a leer. "Brava, brava!" That sentiment might well serve as comment on the whole production. Peters & Co. have turned Gaetano Donizetti's old (1843) comic opera into something to cheer about...
...Turkey? India? Her real name was Marie Dolores Eliza Rosanna Gilbert, and she came from Limerick. At all events, she liked to wear black, was on the stage, had tiny feet and enormous eyes. Her whole life was as absurd as a Verdi opera plot adapted for the wide screen...