Word: technicolorful
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...very easy to scoff at this movie and to laugh at the amount of talent and money Hollywood has squandered on another of its epics. But it should be pointed out that Henry V and Gone With the Wind were both Technicolor epics, yet succeeded as art as well as escapist entertainment. Desiree does neither, though it had all the potentialities: a cast of true actors, a sensitive script writer, and a factual basis in one of history's more romantic escapades. Its great flaw stems from the fact that it was filmed in a wide-screen process...
...Star Is Born. Judy Garland makes a stunning comeback in a Technicolor musical version of 1937's Academy Award winner; with James Mason, Jack Carson (TIME...
...Sheppard trial suddenly became terrible when they brought Marilyn Sheppard into the courtroom ... It was all done with seven slides in glorious Technicolor and a cocky unsentimental little medical examiner with a Phi Beta Kappa key spinning from his vest chain and a red bow tie, notably unsuitable for corpse-pointing, askew under his chin. It will take many sessions of court and a multitude of distractions to erase the first brilliantly colored picture flashed on the big white screen in the darkened courtroom at that dreadful matinee. No wonder Dr. Sam cried and would not look. She was beautiful...
...other performers, notably Mezzo-Soprano Giulietta Simionato, backed her superbly, gave old Norma the kind of urgency it has not known in decades. The orchestra, trained and brilliantly conducted by New York's young (37) Nicola Rescigno, gave every note the vividness of Technicolor. Chicago's top-hatted, diamond-sprinkled audience enveloped Soprano Callas in a hailstorm of applause. To land such a diva was a major operatic coup for Chicago. Maria had left her native Manhattan to live in Greece when she was 13, by 1948 was engaged by La Scala. Married to an Italian millionaire (building...
...Black Knight (Warwick; Columbia), starring Alan Ladd and Patricia Medina, and photographed in Technicolor, is reviewed by TIME'S Camelot correspondent...