Word: screens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Married. Betty Field, 39, actress of stage (Dream Girl) and screen (Of Mice and Men); and Edwin J. Lukas, 55, lawyer; she for the second time (her first: Playwright Elmer Rice), he for the third; in Manhattan...
...Thompson is amusing, too, though she can hardly take over the screen as she does a nightclub; and the Paris backgrounds are nice to look at. The real trouble is that crazy mixed-up script. By the time Hepburn and Astaire drift off in a cloud of doves, the spectator may find himself wishing that one of them was a pigeon-the kind that delivers the message...
...Land (Jaguar; Warner). "Thuh East needs beef!" That's what the man says, but regrettably, in this as in most of his independent productions. Actor Alan Ladd is able to deliver almost nothing but corn. For a moment now and then the wide screen opens on the blond infinities of Kansas grassland, but then it quickly narrows focus to the usual picayune plot: hero in trouble, villain (Anthony Caruso) in black, redhead (Virginia Mayo) in stays, weakling (Edmond O'Brien) in his cups. Then come the cattle drive, the big stampede, the solemn walk through the swinging doors...
...they both give good standard performances. Actress Kerr, whose makeup man went a bit too far with the cloistral pallor, sometimes looks as if she had cut her veins as well as her hair; but Actor Mitchum, even though as usual he does nothing but slob around the screen, has succeeded for once in carrying off his slobbing with significance...
Around the World in 80 Days. Producer Mike Todd, with the help of Jules Verne, 46 stars and $6,000,000. has created the most spectacular travelogue ever seen on the screen (TIME...