Word: screens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hollywood, the silent screen's original vamp, heavy-lidded Cinemactress Theda (A Fool There Was) Bara, 64, was whisked off to a hospital for a rush appendectomy...
...neck so that "if she keeps her head up the folks won't see her double chin." Tastefully dressed in simple Sally Victor hats and Hannah Troy dresses ("We figure they won't be obsolete for five years," explains Producer Walter Colmes), Amy appears on the screen in a set modeled after her own living room. As she speaks in her mannerly, well-modulated voice, the camera picks up actors demonstrating the right and wrong ways to do things. Sample subjects: Kissing in Public ("A man must always remove his hat . . ."); Talking to Strangers ("Sometimes the most charming...
...least two of the same scenes, and three of the same stars -Jay Robinson, who plays the Emperor Caligula with a heavy sneer; Michael Rennie, who portrays Peter as a sort of apostolic Anthony Eden; and Victor Mature, a bulky fellow who helps in filling the huge CinemaScope screen...
Consistency & Constancy. Carroll put in: "Let Desi take a screen test. That would give us a couple of funny scenes with Lucy." Pretty, demure Madelyn Pugh, onetime radio writer, added: "Suppose Hollywood was shooting Don Juan and they thought Desi would be perfect for the part. This opens up all kinds of scenes. Lucy trying to play femmes fatales, Lucy getting jealous of the women Desi must make love to in the show...
More, however, agree with screen-writer Philip Dunne who is "proud that Harvard, under the leadership of presidents Conant and Pusey, has been out in front in the battle for freedom of the mind...