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Under that heading Editor Robert Walker told about a group of movie folk who had become "born-again believers in the Lord Jesus Christ." Among Christian Life's galaxy of "sincere and effective soul-winners": Stars Jane (The Outlaw) Russell and Roy Rogers, Starlet Colleen Townsend. Colleen, said the article, had underscored her conversion by leaving the "secular movie industry," which has "been one of Satan's most effective weapons for corrupting the morals and misleading the youth of the world." None of the others, however, had yet heard a similar call...
Critics called him "snoop" and "transom-peeper." One starlet angrily described his visit as a "personal affront." Ronald Reagan, president of the Screen Actors Guild, righteously insisted that "Hollywood is pretty much a goes-to-bed-with-the-chickens town." The press joined in with a delighted chorus of catcalls...
Born. To Mickey Rooney, 29, perennial cinemadolescent and Starlet Martha Vickers (The Big Sleep), 25; their first child, Rooney 's third (two boys by an earlier marriage), a son. Name: Ted Michael. Weight...
...Three Godfathers), Director Ford now shows a lively flair for broad strokes of comedy. Even when the movie gets close to his old home grounds, as in the cleanly staged scenes of overseas action, he tints it brightly with a sense of the ridiculous. In the French underground, bosomy Starlet Corinne Calvet, gotten up as an overblown copy of Rita Hayworth, makes a fancy leader of the Maquis. Back home, Evelyn Varden plays Willie's comically bland mother to perfection, and William Demarest, a graduate of Sturges comedies, lampoons the bellicose American Legionnaire father with merciless skill. Dan Dailey...
Picture Banned. Hollywood kept its comment down to whispers. Privately, most of the high movie brass professed to take a dim view of Actress Bergman's professional future. Only Colleen Townsend, the starlet who is reportedly quitting films to become a divinity student, spoke up. She recalled the Bible story of the woman taken in adultery: "Let him who is without sin cast the first stone." The first stone was promptly cast by 83-year-old Memphis Censor Lloyd T. Binford, who announced that he was banning Stromboli without seeing it, along with all other Bergman pictures...