Word: sol
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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High Society (MGM) is simply not top-drawer. It should have been. The formula was sound: add music and color to a tested product, in this case Philip Barry's old hit, The Philadelphia Story. Producer Sol Siegel assembled a Who's Who cast. He talked Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra into teaming in a movie for the first time, snagged the services of Grace Kelly for her last screen appearance before embarking for Monaco, paid Cole Porter a reported $250,000 for his first original movie score in eight years, and hired Louis Armstrong to blow...
...Sol Randall: two better synonyms for "schnook" would be 1) jerk, and 2) schmo...
...Hail to Sol Randall: iconoclast, philosopher, non-seeker after the ranking deity of the U.S.: Success. Sol correctly senses the futility of making a success out of marriage with a social-climbing, materialistic female, so he faces the breakup without regret. . . . The ills that beset the Randalls can be found to a greater or lesser degree in so many U.S. marriages and in Yolaine's edict: "No money...
...Give the public the best," says Impresario Sol Hurok, "and you can't miss. If it's promoted right, projected right, the public is here...
Last week, after sitting and listening to the Randalls' trouble for four days, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Gold granted a separation, ordered Sol Randall to pay $35 a week for the support of Yolaine and their three-year-old daughter, Robin Sue. A few minutes after the decision, Justice Gold got a telegram from the woman whose hard work had set Sol on his ill-starred road to Central Park West. It read: "My son, my son, God bless America. Mrs. Sophie Lenefsky (Mother...