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Just as sitting-rooms are sometimes decorated to bring out the quality of a central picture or object d'art, Vera Cruz seems to have been filmed to highlight the brilliance of Burt Lancaster's teeth. At any rate, they are good-looking teeth...
...Vera Cruz (Hecht-Lancaster; United Artists), billed as "The Battle of the Giants," is apparently an attempt to decide the heavyweight championship of Hollywood. In one corner stands Burt Lancaster, congenital desperado, and in the other Gary Cooper, Southern gentle man dispossessed by the Civil War. The rough stuff gets under way somewhere south of the border, around 1866. Bullets squeal, gun butts crunch, death screams gurgle, bombs go bam! And when a man is all tuckered out, some señorita is like as not to come slinking up with a rose in her teeth and a pigsticker...
Nutrilite Show (Sun. 5:30 p.m., NBC). Dennis Day, with Vera Ellen, Johnny Mercer...
...Married. Vera-Ellen, 28, acrobatic Hollywood dancer (White Christmas); and Victor Rothschild, 31, oil company executive; she for the second time, he for the first; near North Hollywood...
...Vera-Ellen, to remind the world that when he wants to, he can move shoe leather with anybody short of Fred Astaire...