Word: warners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...opera (the Metropolitan's road-company La Bohème last April). But he wanted to see the curved-screen Cinerama process. Since it could not be shown at the White House, the President and most of his staff went to a private showing at Washington's Warner Theater. Dutifully, a Secret Service agent-tall at that-sat in front of the President, who later moved to get a better view. Ike talked with Cinerama co-owner Lowell Thomas, lustily sang out along with the background choir-America the Beautiful and Battle Hymn of the Republic...
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...Roberts (Warner) should be one of the biggest moneymakers of the year. It combines a sure-fire story, the honest-Injun appeal of Henry Fonda, and a bagful of tried and true comedy situations. Based on the long-run Broadway hit by Joshua Logan and the late Thomas Heggen, the film gains much from the CinemaScope opportunity to catch the horizon sweeps of the broad Pacific, the majestic overwater parade of a task force, and the sky-filling explosions of ocean dawns and sunsets...
...Following the lead of Warner Brothers, 20th Century-Fox and Paramount, M-G-M announced that it will take the big jump into TV next fall with a weekly half-hour show over ABC called The M-G-M Parade. Its aim: to sell "the studio's forthcoming pictures to be played exclusively in motion-picture theaters...
...Blackboard Jungle, condemned by Critic Mooring, did not "accelerate" delinquency but "insulated" against it. The family itself, testified Paramount's Y. Frank Freeman, is delinquency's chief hotbed, and "an old-fashioned hickory stick" is the remedy. Taken to task for the violence dished out in Warner's unreleased juvenile crime saga, Rebel Without Cause, Executive Producer Jack L. Warner sourly snapped: "The critics must be using radar. I haven't even seen the picture yet." Interrupting, a spectator challenged Warner to state how many of his last 30 movies showed women smoking and drinking. Sighed...