Paramount Technicolor Double Bill at Capitol Theater
Capitol Theater shows Joe E Brown in Beware of Spooks a law officer entangled by a dangerous city politics plot with Mary Carlisle and Clarence Kolb. John Wayne stars in Conflict with Jean Rogers set against Sierra Nevada scenery and a brisk action romance with Ward Bond and others.
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On the Town musical scores delight MGM film
Broad and Hollywood collaborate on On the Town a Technicolor musical starring Gene Kelly Frank Sinatra Betty Garrett Ann Miller Jules Munshin and Vera Ellen at Paramount through Friday. Bernstein Edens Comden and Green wrote new songs and the film follows three sailors and their dates in New York City directed by Kelly and Donen and produced by Arthur Freed.
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Montgomery Clift on marriage plans and ideals
Montgomery Clift, famed for A Place in the Sun at Paramount and hailed as Hollywood’s most eligible bachelor, says he intends to marry when he finds the right woman and she shares his wish, rejecting timelines based on money or career milestones.
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Broadway Debut Star Faces Woes Amid Glory
Carol Channing the new Broadway star in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes pursues fame among New York millionaires and Paris elites as Lorelei Lee, while companion Dorothy Shaw adds wit to the tale. Despite praise, she acknowledges mixed blessings and challenges of stardom.
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Cattle Kate to Star Barbara Stanwyck in Hal Wallis Film
Hollywood dispatch reports Barbara Stanwyck will star in Cattle Kate, a 19th century Western about a dance hall proprietor who used cattle instead of currency. The project follows her success in The Furies and ties to Hal Wallis at Paramount. Stanwyck previously co starred with Ray Milland.
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Wallas
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Ray Milanda
Population of Japan Reported at 82 Million in 1949
The census figure shows Japan’s population at 82,635,786 as of October 1, 1949, reflecting postwar recovery. The data provides a baseline for demographic shifts, informing planning for housing, labor, and social services amid rebuilding efforts.
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Lorelei Lind Lorelei Lorelei Channing’s Broadway Triumph
Lorelei Channing shines at the Esquire Zeigfield Theater amid flowers and telegrams from Noel Coward Cole Porter Irving Berlin and Anita Loos as she celebrates gaining the Lorelei role. Her rise began during a summer theater visit and Bennington College policy sent her to Broadway for two months. Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend fuels her success as Porter telegrams toast her achievement.
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Early setback for Lucille Ball in stage career
Lucille Ball and Bob Hope were part of Paramount's Fancy Pants when Ball was fired from her first theatrical job. She had been dropped from the road company of Ziegfeld's Rio Rita for being too inexperienced.
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National Guard Ranks Are Closed in Texas
Austin January 4 The Texas National Guard will not organize new Army units in the near term Recruiting will be limited to air units and replacements in Army units State Adjutant General K L Berry said the Army National Guard reached its strength goal of 350000 for the fiscal year ending June 30 1950 ahead of schedule
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Trade Pact Between Japan and Germany Sets $25 Million Value
An exchange of goods valued at 25 million dollars is provided under a one year trade arrangement expiring August 1, 1950, between Occupied Japan and Western Germany.
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Thieves Highway Opens At State Theater In San Francisco
Twentieth Century Fox drama directed by Jules Dassin follows Highway 99 truckers in San Francisco amid rivalries, romance, and hazards of long haul life. Richard Conte stars with Valentina Cortesa in her American debut alongside Lee J. Cobb Barbara Lawrence, Jack Oakie, and Millard Mitchell.
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A. I. Bezzerides
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San Francisco
Richard Conte
Valentina Cortesa
Miss Cortesa
Italy
Barbara Lawrence
George Stevens Leader in Film and Stage Roles
George Stevens, producer director of A Place in the Sun at Paramount, has built a diverse career as actor stage manager cameraman gag man writer director and producer. His parents were famed stage folk.
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George Stevens
Paramount
Elizabeth Taylor Becomes Star Performer at 17 in A Place in the Sun
Terrific teenager Elizabeth Taylor, aged 17, stars in George Stevens directed A Place in the Sun for Paramount. She has smoothly transitioned from child roles to adult parts with no career interruption, marking a rare rise in Hollywood.
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George Stevens
Paramount
Cover Boy Memory of Joseph Cotten in New York
Former actor Joseph Cotten, now co-starring with Joan Fontaine in Hal Wallis' September Affair, once paid room rent by posing for collar ads and magazine story illustrations during his New York years.
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Joseph Cotten
Joan Fontaine
Hal Wallis
Estimated POW figures in Soviet controlled areas
An estimated 316,617 Japanese prisoners of war are held in areas controlled by the Soviet Union. The figure reflects wartime custody in the far east and underscores ongoing tensions between Japan and Soviet authorities.
Boris Karloff At the Rialto
Boris Karloff headlines The Man They Could Not Hang at the Rialto Theater. The film, supported by Roger Pryor Lorna Gray and Robert Wilcox, follows a scientist who uses a revived dead man to reveal his murder, then returns from the grave a cruel figure, with a romance subplot involving his daughter and a young reporter.
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Lorna Gray
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Star producer promises Huston oil painting memento
Present to Star Producer Hal Wallis has promised Walter Huston the large oil painting of the star used in The Furies when the picture is completed. Huston has long collected a memento from each of his films.
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United States Mail Star Returns to Produce in England
NOW A PRODUCER Phyllis Calvert who starred opposite Alan Ladd in Paramount's United States Mail has returned to her native England where she is producing as well as starring in film made pictures.
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