Word: screens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heavy-lidded vamp of the silent screen, Polish-born Cinemactress Polo (Mad Love) Negri, 56, suddenly popped out of retirement in Hollywood to disclose all sorts of irons in the fire. Pola, who used to outhawk her own pressagents with whoppers about her past (e.g., she once claimed that she had been divorced from a Pope of Rome), now made big talk about her future. Items: a movie comeback this fall as a fallen woman in a German production, an autobiography in the works which "will cover my life and loves from Chaplin to Valentino-and those who came before...
Three Coins in the Fountain (20th Century-Fox) is another CinemaScope travelogue-this time making a wide-screen tour through Italy. Completely dwarfed by spectacular shots of Venice, Tivoli and Rome is a feeble little plot about a trio of American girls who spend a tedious 102 minutes getting their men: Dorothy McGuire wins Novelist Clifton Webb (wearing a henna rinse); sultry Jean Peters gets a sure-enough Italian, Rossano Brazzi; Maggie McNamara captures Prince Charming in the person of Louis Jourdan. Why any of the six is so set on marrying any of the others is never satisfactorily explained...
...long as Folly to be Wise sticks to its farcical panel show and Sim's fumblings, the film displays the flimsy plot of James Birdie's play, It Depends What You Mean, to best advantage. Moreover, it brings to the screen such engaging people as Martita Hunt, an English dowager, and Roland Culver, the caustic artist. But coupled with these unlikely characters are supposedly real people, a secretary and her beau, who want to know what marriage really means...
...British television drama, moved on to long, successful runs on the London stage and Broadway, and has now been made into a first-rate movie. Director Alfred Hitchcock, by shooting the film in three-dimensional WarnerColor, avoids the static quality common to many stage plays when transferred to the screen. The 3-D is used not so much for its shock value as to bring alive for moviegoers much of the theater's intimacy and depth of movement...
...well conceived show is that Miss Lollabrigia is too little in view. Sharing Philippe's dreams with two other women (this makes the picture a fantasy) she has a smaller part than in Fan Fan or Beat The Devil. Fortunately, the tiny amount of time she is on the screen is matched by the costume she wears. As a luscious houri, Miss Lollabirgia is well outfitted for balmy desert breezes, and is also quite logically clad for a scene in a bath...