Word: screens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Actor Walker recorded the speech for the picture two days before his death last August at the ge of 32. The film's few unfinished scenes were completed with a double for Walker and screen lips from his previous picture, Strangers on a Train...
...Heart (20th Century-Hox) derives its drama from the gallant, real-life story of Singing-Star Jane Froman.-Unfortunately, the picture is less inspiring than its theme. Producer Lamar Trotti's screenplay is larded over with sentimentality, and Jane Froman's toughly courageous story emerges on the screen as the_ sort of life she might have led if Technicolor cameras had been looking...
Delighted by his first fling at moviemaking, British Poet T. S. Eliot modestly said of the screen adaptation of his play Murder in the Cathedral: "I should not regret the experience even were the film which has resulted not the masterpiece which I believe...
Music and comedy acts spice the program, but Hostess Dagmar is still the whole show, and her talents are not quite up to filling the TV screen: she recites, sings (in a pleasant little voice), dances (inexpertly), and breathes deeply. She prefers to play the dumb blonde off the set as well as on, but Dagmar is shrewdly aware of fundamentals. Says she: "I used to think I had a 40-inch bust. Last week I discovered I'm a 42, and I thought we'd better tell the people about this right away...
Sexy Shelly Winters can play the part of a floozie perfectly, and Phone Call from a Stranger is an enjoyable, spicy movie as long as she is on the screen. Miss Winters does not have a very large part, however, and without her Phone Call is quite lusterless. Besides this it is burdened with one of the most ludicrous characterizations I have ever seen...