Word: spellmans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...suffered a stroke, prelude to the death that came in his sleep. The big loudspeakers in the living room were silent, but everywhere the eulogies and the memorials began. In Manhattan's St. Patrick's Cathedral, a solemn pontifical Requiem Mass was offered by Cardinal Spellman (though Toscanini had never been noticeably religious). His body will be taken to Milan for burial. Arturo Toscanini's epitaph might best be expressed in words spoken by the Austrian poet Grillparzer at Beethoven's grave: "Whoever comes after him will not be able to continue; he will have...
...Cardinal Spellman's condemnation of the motion picture Baby Doll has intrigued and greatly puzzled me. If it is a sin to see this picture, it must be assumed the cardinal himself has not seen it. But how can the cardinal condemn Baby Doll if he has not even seen the film? Could it be the cardinal has committed a cardinal...
Denounced from the pulpit by New York's Francis Cardinal Spellman as "revolting" and "morally repellent."* Baby Doll ran into its biggest snarl in Providence. The police snipped half a dozen scenes before they would permit it to be shown. Warner Bros., the film's distributor, threatened to sue the exhibitor if he showed the cut version, but he hung out his "For Adults Only" shingle and began running it anyway. Roman Catholic Bishop Russell J. McVinney of Providence urged his flock to abide by the Legion of Decency's ban against the picture even...
...real villain in the controversy over the morality of Baby Doll is neither Tennessee Williams, who wrote it, nor Elia Kazan, who produced and directed it, nor New York's Cardinal Spellman, who mounted the pulpit of St. Patrick's Cathedral to condemn it. The villains are the advertising men who designed the singularly repulsive poster which decorates, among other things, a whole block of Times Square in Manhattan. While it is the usual practice for publicity men to emphasize sex in every film they promote, this time they have done us a real disservice, for their work is largely...
...Manhattan's St. Patrick's Cathedral this week, Francis Cardinal Spellman issued a rare condemnation from his pulpit, denouncing Baby Doll as "revolting," "deplorable," '"morally repellent" and "grievously offensive to Christian standards of decency." Declared His Eminence: "In solicitude for the welfare of souls entrusted to my care and the welfare of my country, I exhort Catholic people to refrain from patronizing this film under pain...