Word: stevenses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Broad-Minded. It was Hedda, Hedda says, who, after all, told Mike Todd how to make a movie, told Sam Goldwyn how to cast one, and helped Bernie Schwartz become Tony Curtis. By reasoning with Actor James Dean she saved the production of Giant at a time when Dean was...
When the pressures of war eased, the principle of progressive tax rates came under heavy attack. "It is a punishment of the rich man because he is rich," cried Ways and Means Chairman Thaddeus Stevens; and James Garfield, later President of the U.S., called progression "unethical, unsocial and unconstitutional." The...
Only Sprocket Holes. Stevens made Shane, too. deliberately including every major cliche of the oater: cattlemen v. sodbusters, gunfighters out of nowhere, a funeral, a Fourth of July party. Stevens found under each cliche its root truth as a primal element of life on the range, turning what could have...
Similarly, with a cast of dozens, he now wishes to achieve the definitive account of the life of Christ on film. There have been some 40 others. But, says Stevens, "it seems to me there's never been a picture made about religion. There has been more true religion...
Ungentle Love. Much of the script is by Poet Carl Sandburg. It is the result of four years' research by Sandburg, Stevens and others, exhaustively noting details of Biblical Palestine's season and weather, topography and political geography. Stevens carries around a huge black volume that contains seven...