Word: technicolor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Technicolor is a little too muddy for comfort, but the players wade around in it bravely. Charles Bickford plays the big producer with vigor, and Jack Carson is a howl as a pressagent. Actor Mason right to his alcoholic end, glows with a seamless health and handsomeness that may delight the pinup trade but will hardly convince anybody who has ever had a hangover...
...musical Holiday Inn, in which Bing Crosby first sang the song White Christmas. From the first scene (Christmas 1944) to the last (Christmas 1954), it is blatantly the I "big musical," a big fat yam of a picture richly candied with VistaVision (Paramount's answer to CinemaScope), Technicolor, tunes by Irving Berlin, massive production numbers, and big stars. Unfortunately, the yam is still...
...program there was some singing of Harvard songs, Wintergreen and a Technicolor-Cinemascope-Stereophonic version of "Stars and Stripes Forever." When the program closed with "Fair Harvard," an audience, grateful for a wonderful, swinging evening, was again convinced that Harvard has the best band in the country...
Beau Brummell (MGM) is a $3,000,000 spare-no-expense attempt, egregiously cast, costumed and colored (in Eastman Color and Technicolor, too), to take the moviegoer on an elaborate tear through 18th century England. Censorship being what it is, the spectator generally has to take the vulgar intention for the vicious performance: he sees the ornate Regency sofa, but not what happened on it. Art Director Alfred Junge and Costume Designer Elizabeth Haffenden are in fact the real hero and heroine of this picture. The script (based on the old Clyde Fitch-Richard Mansfield heart-tugger that had four...
Unwound in Technicolor flashbacks from the graveside of the heroine (Ava Gardner), the story has a few startlingly good lines and situations-and several embarrassingly bad ones. Ava is a slum-bred flamenco dancer in Madrid when a tyrannical millionaire turned moviemaker (Warren Stevens) shows up with his slavish pressagent (Edmond O'Brien) to look and maybe to buy. But Ava, no easy mark, will have none of it until the millionaire's cynical, broken-down director (Humphrey...