Word: screens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...imperturbable voyager in a way which leaves nothing to be desired. A famous Mexican comedian named Cantinflas is consistently funny throughout as the valet, and shines particulary in a humorous interpretation of a bullfight. Shirley MacLaine plays the Indian princess, and the late Robert Newton makes his last screen appearance as a detective who pursues the travelers under the impression that he is chasing a pair of bank robbers. Todd has also somehow managed to get 44 stage and screen stars to play bit parts. They include such varied figures as Sir John Gielgud, Marlene Dietrich, Frank Sinatra, and Jose...
...real star of the film is a great deal of imposing scenery and the process in which it is filmed. Todd-AO uses a large curved screen which, however, has a less awkward shape than that used in Cinemascope. The great advantage of the process is that objects in the background are every bit as clear and in focus as those near the camera. It is far the most impressive of the recent proliferation of movie gadgets, and alone is nearly worth the Saxon Theater's outrageous prices...
Warren, who is a professor in the English department at Yale University, and also teaches in the drama school received the Pulitzer prize for his novel "All the King's Men," in 1946; and the Screen Writers Guild award for his motion picture adaptation...
Generally when a college baseball team plays a game rumor has it that the little man behind the screen in the brown felt hat is a professional scout, but in Wal-tham yesterday afternoon it was different. Yesterday the man in the brown felt hat was John Ringling North and he was looking for someone to replace aging Emmett Kelly, the King of Clowns. It is inconceivable that he went home with his little black book empty...
Divorced. Anthony Franciosa, 28, mercurial Broadway actor (A Hatful of Rain) and boyfriend of Shelley Winters, 32, tough blonde actress of screen (A Place in the Sun) and stage (A Hatful of Rain); by Beatrice Bakalyar Papaleo, after nearly five years of marriage, no children; in Reno...