Word: versions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...obstacle now in the way: a French court's recognition of Prince Aly's Las Vegas divorce (TIME, Feb. 9, 1953) from sultry Cinemactress Rita Hayworth, who last week settled a nine-month feud with Columbia Pictures. Rita was expected to go before cameras in a cinemusical version of Pal Joey (instead of going Biblical, as once planned, in a movie version of Thomas Mann's Joseph and His Brothers...
Glaser rushed from office to office of party leaders to learn who had been changing the managing editor's copy. He was finally introduced to "Mr. Edwards, the representative from Moscow," who explained that the new version was necessary to assure readers that Glaser did not bear the taint of a capitalist paper and was really "tried and true." Glaser never gave in to the pressure to write such a series, but he saw a lot more of Mr. Edwards...
...300B, a new version of last year's 300, which won the 1955 national stock-car association championship averaging 127 m.p.h. With two four-barrel carburetors and a 9:1 compression ratio, the 300B engine is rated at 340 h.p., 40 h.p. more than last year, making it the highest-powered production-line model in the industry. Price: $3,997. The Fury, which uses basically the same shell as the two-door Plymouth hardtop, but is an inch lower and has a 240 h.p. V-8 engine, instead of the regular 200 h.p. engine...
Guys and Dolls. Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra, Vivian Elaine in Samuel Goldwyn's $5,000,000 version of the Broadway musical. It's a beaut, but Sam made the prints too long (TIME...
Artists and Models (Hal Wallis; Paramount) is an alarming example of what can happen when a picture is remade too often. No matter how vigilant the studio, slight changes creep into each new version, until at last some producer makes a movie that is almost original. In this film, for instance, there is hardly anything left of its two Paramount predecessors except the old, reliable title. In fact, when Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis have finished their indefatigable routine, there is very little of anything left...