Word: walliser
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
The Rose Tattoo (Hal Wallis; Paramount), like the Tennessee Williams play from which it is adapted, is less a show, in a dramatic sense, than a sideshow-a gatherum of Pitchman Williams' less peculiar freaks. The principal exhibit is Serafina Delle Rose (Anna Magnani), a hearty peasant wench transplanted...
'You can't make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm." The duchess, lamented Ghost Amory, tried to impose worrisome conditions of servitude upon him. He was supposed to prove that 1) B. (for Bessie) Wallis Warfield was born "on the right side of the tracks...
*Named, in alphabetical order, for the year's fifth hurricane. U.S. meteorologists, always resourceful, have already picked names for the next 18 big tropical storms that may or may not materialize before the end of 1954: Florence, Gilda, Hazel, Irene, Jill, Katherine, Lucy, Mabel, Norma, Orpha, Patsy, Queen, Rachel...
Money from Home (Hal Wallis; Paramount), in which Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis try to fix a horse race, is pretty funny for a minute or so. The horse they are betting on gets drunk and cannot make the post until the boys rush forward with the black coffee and...
Other expected big-grossers: From Here to Eternity (Columbia), $12,500,000 Shane (Paramount), $8,000,000; How to Marry a Millionaire (20th Century-Fox, CinemaScope), $7,500,000; Peter Pan (Walt Disney; RKO Radio), $7,000,000; Hans Christian Andersen (Samuel Goldwyn; RKO Radio), $6,000,000; House of...