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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Married. Colette Marchand, 28, French ballerina, star of stage (Two on the Aisle) and screen (Moulin Rouge); and Jacques Bazire, 25, musical director of the Ballets de Paris; in London...
...pitfalls of Biblical movies by balancing the saintly preaching of Dean Jagger (as Justus) and Michael Rennie (as Peter) with the muscular Christianity of Burton and Mature. There is a minimum of the sex and sadism that usually characterize Hollywood's explorations of Holy Writ. The CinemaScope screen is handsomely utilized for swordplay, torture chambers and a thundering chase sequence as well as for dramatic shots of the Way of the Cross and Christ's entrance into Jerusalem the week before the Crucifixion. Alfred Newman's music is especially effective in the Palm Sunday hymn...
...Robe would have been a good movie in two-dimensional black and white. In CinemaScope, which uses a wide-angle lens to throw its picture on a curved screen nearly three times the normal width, it all but overpowers the eye with spectacular movie murals of slave markets, imperial cities, grandiose palaces and panoramic landscapes that are neither distorted nor require the use of polarized glasses. In CinemaScope closeups, the actors are so big that an average adult could stand erect in Victor Mature's ear, and its four-directional sound track often rises to a crescendo loud enough...
Born. To June Lockhart, 27, blonde actress of stage (For Love or Money), screen (Meet Me in St. Louis), and television (Who Said That?), and Dr. John Francis Maloney, 41, Manhattan surgeon: their first child, a daughter; in Manhattan. Name: Anne Kathleen. Weight...
...Shadow of a Doubt, Strangers on a Train, Red River, The Big Sky). But not until he worked on U.S. Army orientation films during World War II did he discover the real purpose of his craft. Says he: "I learn to write ... not just for concert but for screen, combine music with sound and dialogue. Sometimes you give a little help to film." But he adds with a sigh and a shrug: "Motionpicture composer not write music for eternity or for symphony orchestra...