Word: warners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Those honored are: Richard F. Athey, Fred F. Berry, Jr., Woodford L. Flowers, Harry B. French, Donald W. Graham, Bradford K. Kroha, John J. Nevin, Warner F. Rankin, Jr., Starr F. Schlobohm, Harry A. Sidles, Roland L. Sundstrom, Allen R. Warrington, John R. Yarnell. None are Harvard graduates...
...consent decree, like those signed by RKO, Paramount, 20th Century-Fox and Warner Brothers (TIME, May 17, 1948, et seq.), requires Loew's to sell 24 theaters outright, and possibly 50 others in its 131-theater chain, in order to encourage competition. Under the five consent decrees signed by the movie companies, more than 1,200 theaters will eventually be sold to independent exhibitors. Another 1,300 are slated to be run by the new theater companies that were organized after divorcement...
...office pull and i) reproduce it in gorgeous Technicolor, 2) throw in some songs and dances, and 3) make it look lavish, regardless of budget. Old favorites slated for the music and color treatment: Huckleberry Finn and Goodbye, Mr. Chips at MGM; Brother Rat and The Male Animal at Warner, What Price Glory? at 20th Century...
This Woman Is Dangerous (Warner) shows how Joan Crawford loses her eyesight and then finds true love in the antiseptic arms of the surgeon who saves her vision. The stumbling block to this romance is that Joan, as usual, has a lurid past: she is the brain, front woman and nursemaid to a pair of hysterical gunmen (David Brian and Philip Carey). What with planning robberies, quieting their tantrums and offering such motherly warnings as, "Now don't hurt anyone," as she passes out the guns, it is remarkable that she doesn't lose her mind as well...
Bugles in the Afternoon (Warner) takes a Technicolor gallop across western prairies infested by Indians who can shoot straight only when they are not shooting at the hero. The indestructible hero is brooding Ray Milland, who has been drummed out of his regiment back east for running a saber into dastardly Hugh Marlowe. Re-enlisting at a frontier fort, he is soon squabbling with Marlowe again, this time over the affections of beauteous Helena Carter...