Word: warners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Onionhead (Warner) is Andy Griffith, who buckled the nation at the midriff as the corn-pone Army private in No Time for Sergeants. This time Hollywood has cast Able Comedian Griffith as a cook's assistant in the Coast Guard, and served him up on a script about as funny as an eyeful of bilge water...
...hard-pressed appliance men, the turnabout came none too soon. Said Westinghouse Vice President Richard J. Sargent: "We are confident that the recession for this industry is over." Most of the industry agreed. Items: ¶Borg-Warner's Norge Division reported that September sales were up 29% for the best month in nearly two years. The company recalled more than 600 workers in three plants, put them on two shifts. Says Norge President Judson S. Sayre: "The way orders are landsliding, we could be sold out for the year by October 15." ¶General Electric's Appliance Park...
...forget that prolix prose poet's advice: "Gentlemen, never write anything but masterpieces; there's such a good market for them." Says Wald: "That's a pretty good idea for movies too." In 1933 Wald sold a story to Modern Screen magazine, was brought West to Warner Brothers to turn it into a movie. From Warner he bounced on to RKO, next tried Columbia, then Fox. Over the years, Producer Wald, 46, has built up a reputation for idiosyncrasies, something that is increasingly rare in the new Hollywood. Examples: he never lets female stars wear hats ("dangerously...
Damn Yankees (Warner). Hollywood's version of Broadway's long-running (2½ years) marriage of baseball and Beelzebub seems sure to draw more customers than the Los Angeles Dodgers, even though it too requires a screen. In this case the screen is an asset. Co-Directors George Abbott (who did the stage musical) and Stanley Donen have lathered it with offbeat color effects and the kind of all-over-the-lot bounce that on Broadway could only be suggested. As a cinemusical, Yankees manages to steal home by a wide margin...
Wind Across the Everglades (Schulberg; Warner) is for the birds. Pretty birds they are, too-snowy egrets, white heron, roseate spoonbills-whether cawing squeakily in their fledgling nests or soaring through a dusky Florida sky. But Author-Co-Producer Budd (On the Waterfront) Schulberg should have heeded the advice usually given to acrophobes rather than bird watchers-never look down. Schulberg does look down, and he and his movie take a terrible tumble...