Word: technicoloration
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Holiday in Mexico (MGM) stimulates the eye and ear, but gives the pulse and brain a good 127-minute rest. It is chiefly a lavish Technicolor showcase for the considerable singing talents of a freshfaced young actress named Jane Powell. Jane plays the adolescent daughter of the U.S. ambassador to Mexico (Walter Pidgeon). The plot relentlessly examines her kittenish romance with the British ambassador's young son (Roddy McDowall) and her schoolgirl crush on celebrated Pianist Jose Iturbi ( played by Jose Iturbi). Between times there are songs by Jane, songs by Ilona Massey (father Pidgeon's romantic interest...
Smoky. Expert Technicolor treatment of the Will James story, starring Fred MacMurray and a piece of beautiful horseflesh (TIME, July...
Caesar and Cleopatra (J. Arthur Rank-United Artists) cost the British $3 to $5 million (by pressagent accounting), and will be peddled in the U.S. as a spectacle. As spectacle, this Gabriel Pascal production does itself proud-from stupendous Technicolor replicas of Ptolemaic Egypt down to intimate studies of the young Queen's décolletage. But all the munificent movie art does not conceal art of a rarer, riper kind: the dialogue for this superspectacle was written by a great master of prose and of wit, George Bernard Shaw. By & large, the playing is worthy of the dialogue...
...weather moviegoers are crazy over horses, music, slapstick, fancy dress, Technicolor and Bette Davis playing twins. Variety's totting up of midsummer winners at the box office...
Smoky. Expert Technicolor treatment of the Will James story, starring Fred MacMurray and a piece of beautiful black horseflesh (TIME, July...