Word: shebas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Married. George Sanders, 52, suave Hollywood heavy; and Benita Hume Colman, 52, actress, widow of Actor Ronald Colman; both for the third time (his second was Cinemagyar Zsa Zsa Gabor); in Madrid, where he is on location for Solomon and Sheba. Benita is a British subject. Sanders, born of British parents in St. Petersburg, Russia, will give up his U.S. citizenship...
...season's most provocative plan for a Broadway musical came from an unlikely impresario: Poet-Novelist-Historian Robert (The White Goddess) Graves. The subject, announced by Graves during an Israeli lecture tour: Solomon and Sheba. Plans call for only a dozen beauties to represent Solomon's 700 wives and 300 concubines. As for casting, Graves hopes to get Lena Horne for Sheba "because she is black but comely, as the Song of Songs says." For the score, he plans to approach Leonard Bernstein. Solomon and Sheba, says Graves, will be "different from the film on the same subject...
...cameras rolled and Cinemorsel Gina Lollobrigida, playing in Solomon and Sheba on location in Madrid, recoiled prettily from the evil one with a dagger. The 'assassination attempt flopped all right. Lunging at his quarry, Actor Luis Santana bumped into a blazing brazier, and raced howling across the set, his cloak a flaming torch. Gina was horror-struck; Santana, soon doused, with only minor burns, was badly shaken. Director King Vidor? The cameras had caught the scene, and he decided to rescript slightly for that touch of burning realism...
...actor, he had been better than many of Hollywood's handsome heroes. As a private citizen, he had certainly been no worse. But in paying its last respects to a man it genuinely liked-he had died in Spain on the set of his latest movie, Solomon and Sheba-Hollywood somehow had to turn the occasion into a supercolossal production. It brought to grisly life the mordant funeral fantasies of Evelyn Waugh or Nathanael West...
...Spain, meanwhile, on the set of Solomon and Sheba, Tyrone Power's funeral marked a beginning, not an end, to trouble. Now that United Artists had decided not to cash in on a $2,500,000 insurance policy and pull out of the picture, problems piled up. Should they use a double to finish the scenes Ty had left undone? At least 50 applicants asked for the job. Even the final decision to hire Brynner and start again from scratch was plagued with difficulties. Stockier than Ty and almost 3 in. shorter, Yul would need all his costumes made...