Word: screens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...another 100 consular officials to its foreign service to be able to handle the additional work under the McCarran Act. In the meantime, the U.S. Immigration Service made a "gentleman's agreement" with the major foreign shipping lines to put an inspector aboard the big liners to screen the crews during the voyage; this would avoid a hopeless jam on arrival. The first inspector to try it was Leonard Martin, who went aboard the Liberte when it left New York Dec. 9, and spent the voyage to France and back screening the crew...
...radio people sat talking politics around a table at Buenos Aires' Radio Belgrano. A plump, blonde actress named Eva Duarte, then occupying the apartment next to that of Labor Minister Juan Peron, got into a hot argument with creamy-skinned Libertad Lamarque, then the country's top screen and radio actress. Libertad imperiously leaned across the table, gave Eva the last slap she was ever to receive in public, and stalked off with her own admirers. A moment later, according to the story, Tango Singer Hugo del Carril walked by to find Eva alone and in tears...
...Indianapolis, the Methodist Ministerial Association asked station WFBM-TV to have two of its announcers stop quaffing beer on the TV screen because they "unconsciously do our children such harm as years cannot remove...
Like William Inge's 1950 play, which Daniel Mann (who also directed the stage version) has carefully and faithfully transferred to the screen, the picture skirts the chaotic core of its subject, substituting pity for penetration, sympathy for real insight. The film also blunts some of the drama's edges (e.g., the seduction of the college student) because of the requirements of screen censorship. But the movie remains a generally honest and affecting examination of a marriage dying piecemeal from a sort of emotional anemia. The picture is at its best when it owes least to the stage...
...Richard Jaeckel) neck in the parlor. Forsaking his usual swashbuckling roles, Burt Lancaster plays the sleepwalking Doc with great earnestness, but his performance frequently makes the character seem wooden rather than frustrated. It is in Shirley Booth's characterization that the movie really catches fire. Making her screen debut at 45, after some twoscore years of success on stage and radio (she was the original Miss Duffy of Duffy's Tavern), auburn-haired Actress Booth, shiftlessly waddling around and prattling away endlessly in a singsong voice, does a highly skillful job of bringing the gabby, good-natured, slatternly...