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...Peace, is over, and the Italian producers, Ponti-de Laurentis (American associate: Paramount), are left with a clear field; Producer Mike Todd has dropped his project, despite a finished script by Playwright Robert E. Sherwood and months of preparatory work put in by Director Fred (High Noon) Zinnemann. (MGM and Producer David O. Selznick quit the race months ago.) The Ponti-de Laurentis movie version of the great Russian novel is being shot in Italy and Yugoslavia, with Audrey Hepburn starring...
Pleasant, too, are the color, the costumes and the settings, and Fred (High Noon) Zinnemann's direction is light and sure. Hero Gordon MacRae acts with a winning warmth and naturalness, and shows a voice as clear and flexible as any in Hollywood. James Whitmore, Jay Flippen, Eddie Albert and Charlotte Greenwood are good in secondary roles, but the real stunner of the show is the heroine, a 21-year-old newcomer from Smithton, Pa. named Shirley Jones. She has a milky, springtime skin, a creamy figure, and a smile like melting butter. Her brook-clear soprano...
...Wind) Selznick. De Laurentis already has a crew in Finland ready to shoot snowy backgrounds for Napoleon's retreat from Moscow, although his six writers have not yet done the script for Director King (Duel in the Sun) Vidor. Unintimidated. Todd hired Fred (From Here to Eternity) Zinnemann to direct and Playwright Robert Sherwood to write his version, announced that he had budgeted the movie...
...could be nothing squalid about it; his wife would have to be made to understand that it was something fine-and bigger than all of them. Her peculiar talent, you might say, is that she inspires licit passion." From the day in 1951 when she walked into Director Fred Zinnemann's office wearing prim white gloves ("Nobody came to see me before wearing white gloves"), the well-bred Miss Grace Kelly of Philadelphia has baffled Hollywood. She is a rich girl who has struck it rich. She was not discovered behind a soda fountain or at a drive...
...From Here to Eternity, voted best picture, picked up seven other Oscars as well: best supporting actor, Frank Sinatra; best supporting actress, Donna Reed; best director, Fred Zinnemann; best black & white cinematography, Burnett Guffy; best screenplay, Daniel Taradash; best film editing, William Lyon; best sound recording, John P. Livadary...