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...corporation to fall back on, just in case CinemaScope should prove to be a lumpy bed. It was headed by Leonard Goldstein (TIME. April 28. 1952), who made millions for Universal-International with low-budget pictures like Ma and Pa Kettle and Francis, the talking mule. Now that the wide-screen boom is, in fact, shaking down to competitive normalcy, Goldstein may be worth his weight in gold...
...colossal movie "premiere" of the week was Sam Goldwyn's The Best Years of Our Lives, Academy Award winner of 1946. Goldwyn announced that he will reissue his old movie in January for wide-screen exhibition...
...drawings are witty, and some of the caricatures of Egyptian and Roman reliefs are a real howl. The wide-screen problem is neatly solved to the advantage of the audience: contrasts, which can be achieved on the regular screen only by cutting from picture to picture, can now be improved by setting the pictures side by side...
...Marry a Millionaire (20th Century-Fox) is the second picture produced in CinemaScope-the wide-screen process that made The Robe look, in the studio's ledger as well as in the public's eye, like a huge, animated dollar bill. HTMAM might be said to cover the other side of the currency. Where The Robe, a Biblical epic, was dominated by the personable male heads of Richard Burton, Michael Rennie and Victor Mature, its successor is a light comedy devoted to a close inspection of three famous girls...
...would have added any plus value ... we would have shown it the other way." Although the Music Hall cautiously withheld comment on 3-D itself, the decision is a blow to any serious future Hollywood attempts at 3-D with glasses. ¶ Warner Bros., apparently abandoning its own WarnerScope wide-screen process, announced that it would use Fox's Cinema-Scope. Warner CinemaScopepics now in the works: A Star Is Born (with Judy Garland), Rear Guard (with Guy Madison), Mr. Roberts (with Marlon Brando), Helen of Troy, Scott's The Talisman...