Word: screens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trial judge to screen the Government files in the case and decide what the defense is entitled...
Porgy and Bess (Samuel Goldwyn; Columbia). The sound stage burned down. The leading man almost quit. The original director was fired. But Producer Sam Goldwyn kept plugging away at his long-awaited, much-ballyhooed screen version of George Gershwin's durable Broadway musical. By the time the show was in the can, it had cost more than $7,000,000 to produce-and it may cost almost as much again to promote and distribute. If Sam's past performance (The Best Years of Our Lives, Guys and Dolls) is anything to go by, he will probably...
...front of television sets are well warmed. What is more, TV producers want more clergymen to man their panel-discussion programs. This chance to talk to a vast new congregation is hampered by one handicap: pulpit-trained preachers and priests often show up as poor performers on the TV screen...
...Kenmore). Perhaps the best British film since Alec Guinness and Jack Hawkins teamed up in The Prisoner, this is a deeply penetrating and significant study of English sex and society, with some of the frankest and most adult dialogue ever to come across the screen. As an aging mistress, Simone Signoret gives a devastating performance that justifiably won the Cannes Festival's award for the "best performance by an actress." Named "best picture of the year, 1959" by the British Film Academy...
...care what the part is," says Director Vincente Minnelli, "she can do anything." Seeing her on the screen, Scenarist Dwight Taylor (Top Hat) was reminded of his mother, the late famed Actress Laurette Taylor. "The comparison is irresistible," he wrote Director Minnelli. "There are only a few over the years who can say 'I'm going out to buy a can of pork and beans' and find you choking up. Judy Holliday has a lot of that. And Shirley Booth's voice has some of it. But if I had a choice of a performance...