Word: screens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Lamar Trotti, 51, Oscar-winning screen writer (Wilson) and producer (The Ox-Bow Incident, Cheaper by the Dozen); of a heart attack; in Oceanside, Calif...
...Kate Hepburn's 24 years on stage and screen, her detractors have been many. Yet most of them have had to eat their words. The most damning thing ever said of her was in 1938, when Harry Brandt, a movie exhibitor, labeled Kate "boxoffice poison." But this year Kate is stronger than she ever was: her last two films, The African Queen and Pat and Mike, are top box-office hits of the season...
...gave her a screen test. She was making $79.50 a week in The Warrior's Husband, but she demanded $1,500 a week from Hollywood, and meant it. Nevertheless, when RKO actually met her stiff price, Kate phoned her close friend Laura Harding and said: "They must be insane out there. You'd better come to the Coast with...
...baseball umpires, corset salesmen, jet pilots and bagel bakers dominate the screen. British panelists are more likely to be guessing at such occupations as winkle-washer, teapot-handler, kipper-packer, gentleman's gentleman, or sagger-maker's bottom knocker (a pottery worker). A strictly British question which suddenly narrows down the field: Are you nationalized...
Critic. In Toledo, George E. Miscovich, fed up with TV, was charged with assault & battery after his wife complained that he fired nine times at their flickering TV screen, missed, fired twice at her, missed again...