Word: screens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gina entered a beauty contest, was chosen Miss Rome, ran second in the Miss Italy competition. Two years after that, she married Dr. Skofic, got a showy role in a picture about beauty contests called Miss Italia, and an urgent invitation from Hollywood to come quick and take a screen test, all expenses paid. The sender: RKO Boss Howard Hughes, who had just seen a picture of Gina in a Bikini...
...Sofia Loren (38, 24, 37), 19, is the youngest of Italy's screen queens. Insiders give some of the credit for her rapid rise to her harddriving, redheaded Neapolitan mother, who hovers incessantly in the background, pushing her daughter to the front. Honey-blonde Sofia got her start as Miss Rome, went on to dramatic school and a modeling job. She has a thick Neapolitan accent, and in the sultry Roman evenings, loves to turn on the record player, throw off her clothes and dance...
...seems to be the general practice among film critics to ignore the author of the story on which the screen treatment is based, or else to include the author's name in a list of credits printed so small that no one over 39 could read it. TIME'S review of The Earrings of Madame De [July 26] says: "The triumph belongs to Director Max Ophuls." The triumph, also belongs to Louise de Vilmorin, well-known French novelist, beauty [see cut], and femme du monde. Her short story, originally called Madame de-, first appeared...
...camera turn slowly back and forth to suggest a corpse swinging on a rope. Trick lights and a turtleneck sweater make his cadaverous face appear to float in air, and sometimes a zoomar lens moves in until only one glittering Nordine eye fills up the television screen...
...Waterfront (Horizon; Columbia) is an attempt by a master director, Elia Kazan, to develop heroic, classic-style drama out of dockside thuggery and union corruption. Kazan succeeds in producing a shrewd piece of screen journalism, a melodrama in the grand manner of Public Enemy and Little Caesar. But he fails to do anything more serious-largely because he tries too hard. In searching for the general meaning in little lives, Director Kazan has trained his lens down fine on small events; he has too often watched his characters through the magnifying glass of special prejudice-the old sentimental prejudice that...