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...early '40s, the spy pre-empted the gangster as Hollywood hero. After WWII the national mood turned cynical and gangster movies were revived as grim portrayals of city life, with dark, oppressive lighting, lonely streets in the cold rain, and tough cookies like Barbara Stanwyck who came into their...
SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). Barbara Stanwyck and Burt Lancaster have a communication problem in Sorry, Wrong Number...
...film-Gary Cooper, Gary Grant, Jimmy Stewart-always triumphed against Big Money, amid settings of dreamlike luxury, cluttered with butlers, white pianos and canopied beds. Like animated editorial cartoons, their opposition was always a vested-and usually watch-chained-interest on the order of Edward Arnold. The heroine-Barbara Stanwyck or Jean Arthur-spoke with a catch in her throat that accented her vulnerability. But she had a whim of iron, and when she urged John Doe or Mr. Smith to Washington, the nation's laws were rewritten on the spot. As the Girl Friday, she was the flip...
...first straight roles-triple portrayals of a Peter Lorre-like psychopathic killer, a white-haired father and his smarmy son. With virtuosity, Hepburn and Arkin collaborate to revive an old theme-The-Helpless-Girl-Against-the-Odds-that has been out of fashion since Dorothy McGuire and Barbara Stanwyck screamed for help in The Spiral Staircase and Sorry, Wrong Number. If Hollywood is still counting money, it ought soon to be back in style...
EMMY AWARDS PROGRAM (ABC, 9-11 p.m.). Television toasts its own, with Hugh Downs hosting in New York and Joey Bishop holding forth in Hollywood. Lucille Ball, Barbara Stanwyck and Carol Burnett are among the presenters...