Word: warners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Quick success, like his ready smile, seems to cling naturally to husky (200 Ibs., 6 ft. 3 in.), lackadaisical Jim Garner, who, unlike Competitor Sullivan, has a hard time keeping a straight face during his five-days-a-week shooting schedule on the busy back lot of Warner Bros. Confesses Jim: "I can do it better clowning." Any way he does it, Garner gets the support of brisk direction, handsome settings, some elemental but red-blooded lines from writers like Marion Hargrove and Phi Beta Kappa (U.C.L.A., '39) Writer-Producer Roy Huggins, who describes Hero Bret Maverick...
...touring company of The Caine Mutiny Court Martial, and he eventually replaced the late John Hodiak in the show. "I didn't register beyond the sixth row," he admits. But later, Garner landed a small part in TV's Cheyenne, and on the strength of it, Warner Bros, signed him to play Marlon Brando's Marine buddy in Sayonara...
Even before The Dark at the Top of the Stairs hit Broadway, Warner Bros. bought the movie rights, hired Inge to do the screenplay. "In the past, I did not feel ready to tackle Hollywood," says Inge. "But I feel now that I have some mastery my craft." Another upcoming Inge project: his first novel, a story of a boy growing up in the Midwest...
Sayonara (Warner) is a modern version of Madame Butterfly which has gained in social significance but lost its wings-Puccini's music...
Bombers B-52 (Warner) is a $1,400,000 want ad for Air Force technicians-the ground crews needed to keep 'em flying in the Strategic Air Command. SAC being what it is, a powerful discouragement to missile warfare, audiences might be prepared by recent headlines to take the picture seriously. It therefore comes as a shock when the customer finds himself sniggering through scene after scene, not only at Karl Malden, who gives a funny and often touching performance as a master sergeant, but also at some of the most extravagant recruiting promises that have been made since...