Word: warners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This was explained to director Kazan some time after the event. Without consulting him, Warner Brothers had invited a Catholic layman to expurgate the picture, after which it was rewarded with a "B" or "Acceptable" rating...
Obviously, Warner Brothers has a perfect right to make whatever cuts for whatever reasons it chooses; moreover, assuming their fears were reasonably justified, they acted rationally in accordance with their freely-expressed and irreproachable aim, namely, to make a buck. At any rate, the public was not missing out seriously, for the twelve cuts, amounting to four minutes running time, were neither crucial nor titillating--they apparently represented a random selection from the film's footage. From the Legion of Decency's point of view, it was simply doing a job, which was legal, with the most effective means...
This situation could be much improved, says Los Angeles' Dr. Lewis Warner Guiss (rhymes with mice). If all the victims could be brought to the operating table promptly, 25 times as many could be saved. The blame for the present high death rate, Dr. Guiss believes, is threefold: 1) cancer education has focused too much on the forms that are easiest to detect, 2) people go around for months with severe stomach symptoms before they see a doctor, 3) doctors are so discouraged by the poor outlook for stomach cancer patients that they do not prod them hard enough...
...Streetcar Named Desire (Charles K. Feldman; Warner) is an impressive adaptation of Tennessee Williams' prize-winning 1947 Broadway hit about a fate-battered Southern belle in the last agonies of degradation. Though the movie has its flaws, it can claim a merit rare in Hollywood films: it is a grownup, gloves-off drama of real human beings...
...Moonlight Bay (Warner) is a folksy period musical somewhat casually adapted from the Penrod stories of Booth Tarkington, whose Seventeen is currently a Broadway musicomedy. Set in an innocent, brightly colored Indiana during World War I, the picture is strictly summer-weight material-thin, porous and not at all wrinkleproof, but comfortably loose and light...