Word: screens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chin up but mouse-quiet, Elizabeth Taylor Todd made her first public appearance since the death of her rambunctious Mike (TIME, March 31) at a Hollywood press conference called to announce her next screen role: a budding beauty queen in the comedy Busman's Holiday. The producers: plucky Liz and her stepson, Mike Todd Jr., 28, who nervously flaunted some of the old man's damn-the-torpedoes financial bazaz: "Cost? We'll spend as much as it takes...
...last resolving his boyhood bafflement, Cinemogul Cecil B. (The Ten Commandments) DeMille, a veteran purveyor of history as it should have been -with color, wide screen and brigades of extras-helped out New York City on a problem of medium-high learning. Donated by DeMille: four plaques, to be placed at the foot of Cleopatra's Needle, the 3,500-year-old Egyptian obelisk in Central Park, with a translation of the monument's hieroglyphics. For the occasion, DeMille recalled his urchin days in the wilds of the big city: "As a boy, I used to look upon...
...ghosts, fear of witches, fear of the dark, the sinister and the mysteriously terrible-these stay with the adolescent. There are three ways to overcome them: psychoanalysis, nightmares, and terror movies, [in which] old childhood anxieties are activated, given life and a form of objective reality on the screen, and then dispelled...
Unfortunately, Olivia's pill is so heavily sugared that grownups may find it hard to swallow. Actress de Havilland, who is seldom seen on the screen these days, is still the same fine-looking woman -a condition the studio attributes to "marital happiness and yoga exercises." Unhappily, she is also the same mistress of sentimental overstatement. She never misses a chance to press her heart and roll her eyes, but she could not be bothered to learn the proper way to blow out a kerosene lamp.*As for Actor Ladd, after 17 years and 40 starring roles...
...could easily have been worse, and so could Silvana Mangano. Jo Van Fleet is first-rate, and Tony Perkins, a skillful young man who has gained his craft so easily that he may be in danger of losing his art, does the best work of his brief screen career. Chief credit belongs to the director, France's René Clement (Forbidden Games, Gervaise). He has done some of the vulgar things that the bankers believe the mass audience requires, but he has also been honestly concerned to preserve the passionate spirit of the book, the sinister genius...