Word: warners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Spirit of St. Louis (Leland Hayward-Billy Wilder; Warner). Based on Charles Augustus Lindbergh's Pulitzer Prizewinning book (TIME, Sept. 14, 1953) -which was sold to Producer Leland Hayward and Director Billy Wilder for a share of the picture's profits-this excellent film takes as its story line the simple, glorious trajectory of the flight itself. The essential facts of Lindbergh's early life-he was the son of a well-known Minnesota Congressman, barnstormed as a boy pilot, made top of his class as an Army flying cadet, was flying the mail between St. Louis...
Doubting that I'd get close to her again, I looked around for her crew, and soon discovered a talkative little lady of about 40, from Warner Brothers, who told me to my dismay that Carroll Baker is really Mrs. Jack Garfein, the mother of a bouncing baby daughter...
...Warner Bros, polled the audience at a sneak preview of The Spirit of St. Louis, found with pained surprise that hardly anyone under 40 knew or cared anything about Charles A. Lindbergh (now 55) or his solo flight across the Atlantic 30 years ago. Determined that the younger generation should not confuse the Lone Eagle with Sitting Bull, or with Jimmy Stewart, 47, the film's Lindbergh, the studio detailed Tab Hunter, 25 (who does not appear in Spirit), to tout the movie in high schools and colleges, and give a from-the-heart sell to the Missile...
...Secret Affair (Warner) is a comedy of bad manners. They are largely exercised by a newsmagazine tycoon (Susan Hayward), aided by her editor (Paul Stewart), upon a famed combat general (Kirk Douglas). The general believes that there are only two kinds of women: mothers and the others. The female tycoon believes that there are only two kinds of men, "and I can handle both." Each, by profession, is determined to have his own way. When she decides to do a cover story on him, exposing him as a blabbermouth and general incompetent, the stage appears...
...Washington the more conservative Corcoran jury, made up of Corcoran Director Hermann Warner Williams Jr., Metropolitan Museum Curator of Paintings Theodore Rousseau Jr. and Philadelphia Museum Painting Curator Henry Clifford, took three days to weed through 1,643 submitted paintings. Then they underlined by their choices the two trends they felt most evident in the heavily abstract field: i) a move toward more recognizable subject matter, and 2) a surprising strength in oldtime geometric abstractions. Loren Maclver's softly luminous The Street (see next spread), which carried off first honors, was called by one juror "very, very sensitive...