Word: screens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second time on the screen this month, the F.B.I. relentlessly tracks down its red prey. But while its success is due to modern science in Walk East on Beacon, it is due on ancient fate and blind luck in The Atomic City . Save for a junior, tow-headed edition of Lanny Budd on a bicycle and a raffle ticket, Joe Stalin might be sitting in the White House even now, the country's cities in ruins...
...what televiewers see on their screens is the sort of cheerful rowdiness that has been rare in the U.S. since the days of the silent movies' Keystone Comedies. Lucille submits enthusiastically to being hit with pies; she falls over furniture, gets locked in home freezers, is chased by knife-wielding fanatics. Tricked out as a ballerina or a Hindu maharanee or a toothless hillbilly, she takes her assorted lumps and pratfalls with unflagging zest and good humor. Her mobile, rubbery face reflects a limitless variety of emotions, from maniacal pleasure to sepulchral gloom. Even on a flickering, pallid...
...years), Lucille Ball is currently the biggest success in television. In six months her low-comedy antics, ranging from mild mugging to baggy-pants clowning, have dethroned such veteran TV headliners as Milton Berle and Arthur Godfrey. One of the first to see the handwriting on the TV screen was Funnyman Red Skelton, himself risen to TV's top ten. Last February, when he got the award from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences as the top comic of the year, Skelton walked to the microphone and said flatly: "I don't deserve this. It should...
Died. Canada Lee, 45, top-ranking Negro actor of screen (Cry, the Beloved Country) and stage (Native Son), who was a jockey, prizefighter and leader of an unsuccessful jazz band before he got his start in the theater in 1934 as Banquo in the WPA all-Negro production of Macbeth; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...have always been fascinated by the story of Helen of Troy. It offers the first dramatic example of conflict between Asia and Europe. And the love story of Paris of Troy and the beautiful Spartan girl Helen is something I've long wanted to bring to the screen. Homer did all right with his story. I'd like...