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Married. James Michener, 48, novelist (The Bridges of Toko-ri), connoisseur of things Japanese (The Floating World), 1947 Pulitzer Prizewinner for Tales of the South Pacific; and Colorado-born Nisei Mari Yoriko Sabusawa, 35, assistant editor of the American Library Association Bulletin; he for the third time, she for the first; in Chicago...
Divorced. James Michener, 48, novelist (The Bridges of Toko-Ri), winner of a 1947 Pulitzer Prize (for Tales of the South Pacific); by his second wife, Vange A. Nord Michener, 33; after seven years of marriage, no children; in Philadelphia...
More Than Beautiful. When the stampede started, Grace was in a bathing suit dutifully splashing around a Japanese bathhouse as Navy Pilot Bill Holden's wife in The Bridges at Toko-Ri (a movie that does little for Grace except establish the fact that she has a better figure than normally meets the eye). At about the same time, Paramount's producer-director team of William Perlberg and George Seaton got word that Jennifer Jones, scheduled to play the title role in their next picture, The Country Girl, had become pregnant. They asked M-G-M to lend...
...wigs, who watches over his flock of birdmen with loving care, and especially over Holden, who reminds him of a son he lost in World War II. In the end, nevertheless, the admiral has to send his boy to almost certain death in a mission against the bridges at Toko-ri. And death it is, though for all too long the audience is teased with the hope of a sentimental save and the chance to see Holden reunited with his wife (Grace Kelly, who does what little her part permits with charm and sensibility...
...Bridges at Toko-ri (Paramount), based on the 1953 novel by James Michener, is one of the best of all the many Hollywood pictures about the Korean war. The movie is a good deal better than the book. And in this case, besides, there is the cold beauty of the jet planes as they flash through black skies like algebraic swans in a futuristic myth...