Word: screens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Walter O'Malley were really shrewd, he would convert the Coliseum into an outdoor movie house when the Dodgers are out of town. With a built-in 42-ft. screen it should be a natural...
...usual, her favorite costume is the wrap-around towel that does not quite wrap around. Unhappily, the makers of this movie spend so much time exposing Brigitte that they seem to overlook the exposition of the story-which becomes especially unclear whenever Actress Bardot is on the screen. Still and all, the plot makes more sense than some of the subtitles. "Merde!" cries Brigitte, and the English translation helpfully explains: "Ouch...
...Another Place (Lanturn Productions; Paramount) should provide an answer to one of Hollywood's most pressing questions: How will the recent scandal about Lana Turner's private life affect her public appeal? At a preview of this picture, when Actress Turner's name flashed on the screen, cheers rocked the galleries. The picture itself might more suitably be greeted with groans, but it is just the sort of soap opera that can be useful in laundering a reputation...
...screen, as she was in person, Lana is romantically involved without benefit of clergy, but on the screen, or so the dialogue would seem to suggest, her only guilt is her innocence-the cad (Sean Connery) never told her he was married. He is a great big sophisticated British newscaster, she is a poor little wide-eyed American newspaper correspondent. They meet in London during World War II, and she never doubts that bedding will lead to wedding until he tells her the awful truth. "I don't want to hurt you," he explains...
...other direction; she looks like a nun who had been only mildly unattractive until she met with a nasty accident. Since her beauty is the fulcrum of the plot, it sags heavily whenever she is around; happily enough, she spend most of the time off-screen in the arms of her lover...