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Michelle Farmer, 18, dark-haired daughter of Gloria Swanson, announced that she was serious about acting, and planned to stay indefinitely in London to study the British theater: "I have a fear of anyone rising too quickly, and I don't care if it takes me 20 years...
...list of the "ten best-dressed males of 1950," selected by women fashion experts, included Henry Ford II ("the young look"), Cinemactor Robert Montgomery ("the handsome look") and Henry J. Kaiser ("the executive look"). Included in the ladies' best-dressed list for the first time: Gloria Swanson, Faye Emerson and Sloan Simpson O'Dwyer...
...American National Theater and Academy has come. It is also about as far from what ANTA should be doing as so high-purposed an organization could go. Twentieth Century is a brazenly commercial farce, made into a sure thing with Jose Ferrer's sturdy reputation and Gloria Swanson's sudden new fame...
...late-December pastime of picking the screen's best of the year, seemed to agree that the two best movies of 1950 were Paramount's Sunset Boulevard and 20th Century-Fox's All About Eve. The National Board of Review put Sunset Boulevard first, voted Gloria Swanson, in her sensational screen comeback, the year's best actress. The New York Film Critics put All About Eve first, singled out Scripter-Director Joseph L. Mankiewicz as best director and Star Bette Davis as best actress. By citing Gregory Peck as best actor (for his playing in Twelve...
Sunset Boulevard. Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder take a clever, sardonic look at Hollywood, and Gloria Swanson makes her comeback, in the year's most consistently brilliant display of movie craftsmanship (TIME...