Word: screens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...director made use of the fact that Italian children are among the world's most charming and filled the screen with them. He drew on a universal sympathy for the underdog and respect, if not reverence, for priests, bishops, and popes. He wove these around a chubby cherub and a scrawny donkey and released a picture that one can only call effective. It is neither good nor bad, but merely a well-illustrated sermon...
Stage and screen director Elia Kazan will deliver the second Theodore Spencer Memorial Foundation lecture on Wednesday, May 14, in New Lecture Hall, Harry T. Levin, professor of English, announced yesterday...
...year ago Hughes fired a writer named Paul Jarrico, suspected of being a Communist, junked his work on The Las Vegas Story and got a new scenario. Jarrico demanded part screen credit or $5,000, and the Screen Writers' Guild backed him. But Hughes filed suit against Jarrico, claiming that he had violated the morals clause of his contract by refusing to tell a congressional committee whether he was a Red. Jarrico countered with a $350,000 damage suit. Hughes's "personal acts and conduct," he said, "are in constant violation of generally accepted public 'conventions...
Hollywood and Broadway have long suspected that brilliant Stage & Screen Director Elia Kazan (Death of a Salesman, A Streetcar Named Desire) had once been a Communist, along with some other members of New York's now defunct pink-arty Group Theater. The professional martyr-makers were, as always, ready to cry persecution. But last January, in a secret session of the House Un-American Activities Committee, Kazan admitted that he had in fact been a party member for 18 months from 1934 to 1936. In that confession-no word of which reached the public-Kazan stubbornly refused to name...
...Convicts (Stanley Kramer; Columbia), based on Psychologist Donald Powell Wilson's 1951 bestseller about his prison experiences, comes to the screen accenting the corn instead of the criminology. The book was a sprightly account of a three-year research project into the relationship between drug addiction and criminality, which Wilson conducted at Leavenworth in the early '30s for the U.S. Public Health Service. It also told of the six convicts who assisted him-and who tested him as much as he tested them...