Grace Kelly Captures Best Actress for The Country Girl
Grace Kelly wins the Best Actress award for The Country Girl. The Philadelphia heiress rose from modeling to TV and film on her own merit, proving talent over fortune as she stars alongside Bing Crosby and William Holden at the Roxy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bing Crosby
Grace Kelly
Paramount
Roxy Theatre
William Holden
John Kelly
Philadelphia
Grace
Philly
Roxy
New York
Hollywood
Broadway
Miss Kelly
Bing
New York Film Critics
One Desire opens with Baxter Hudson Adams in oil boom tale
Anne Baxter Rock Hudson and Julie Adams star in a rugged Oklahoma era romance. The film follows Baxter as a gambling hall operator and Hudson as a bank employee who marry, raise Baxter's and Hudson's younger brother, and face a courtroom battle over guardianship. Natalie Wood appears as the miner's daughter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anne Baxter
Rock Hudson
Julie Adams
Oklahoma
Universal-International
Bowline Theatre
Miss Baxter
Hudson
Barry Curtis
Randsberg
Colo
Natalie Wood
St. Louis
Miss Adams
Ace High
Palance Learns Tricks Of Magic For The Silver Chalice
On the set of The Silver Chalice Palance studied sleight of hand with magician John Calvert to portray the Magician Simon. Calvert praised Palance’s quick hands as he learned card and weapon tricks for the CinemaScope Warner Bros. production directed by Victor Saville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack Palance
Victor Saville
Sunset Theatre
Palance
Simon
Thomas B. Costain
Saville
John Calvert
Mr. Palance
Mr. Calvert
Shane
Warner Bros
Virginia Mayo
Pier Angeli
Paul Newman
Basil
Herbert Rudley
I Remember Mama film and stage origins praised
The piece traces Mama's Bank Account from Kathryn Forbes novel to Read er's Digest to John Van Druten stage play I Remember Mama. It notes the Broadway run, the Roxy Theatre film adaptation, and the CBS TV series, with Irene Dunne in the Mama role and George Stevens as executive producer and director.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mama
George Stevens
Kathryn Forbes
Reader’s Digest
John van Druten
Film Drama Portrays Gangsters As Tougher Than Before
Producer Clarence Greene discusses crime lords for the film New York Confidential opening at the Roxy Theatre. Starred by Broderick Crawford Richard Conte Marilyn Maxwell J Carrol Naish and Anne Bancroft the drama portrays mobsters as more brutal yet restrained, with ties to law enforcement and their own justice system.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarence Greene
America
Mr. Greene
New York
Anne Bancroft
Greene
Edward Small
Russell Rouse
Kansas City
Bizarre Creatures In Disney's Desert Film
A review of Walt Disney's The Living Desert in Technicolor highlights lethal wildlife like the Gila Monster the tarantula and bobcat. It notes that cruelty is human not animal and that desert life follows harsh unvarying laws as the film opens Thursday at the Princess theatre.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walt Disney
Great American Desert
Princess Theatre
Fragmentary Quote Highlights Loyalty to the Organization
A fragment from a publication states loyalty to the organization as the sole guiding principle, implying internal discipline and unity amid questions of leadership and decision making.
Tarzan TV Star Ready to Swing Into Hollywood Screens
Hollywood bets on Gordon Scott as Tarzan in a fall TV film project. The ex lifeguard traveled through Africa meeting tribes in Kenya Tanganyi ki Uganda and the Belgian Congo, amid Mau Mau unrest, to bring the jungle hero to a new audience.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hollywood
Texas
Utah
Tarzan
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Burroughs
Gordon Scott
Scott
Africa
Kenya
Tanganyiki
Uganda
Belgian Congo
Chiropractor's Health Column From Decatur Alabama
Dr. H. T. Sammons a Decatur Alabama chiropractor writes a health column describing chiropractic philosophy training and practice. He notes his Mississippi birth and Texas College education and invites readers to submit questions with 25 cents for answers to his mailbox at 209% Second Avenue Box 1667 Decatur Alabama.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elizabeth Ann
Roberta Ann
Lenora
Decatur
Baugh-Wiley Clinic
Wiley
Finley
Hattiesburg
Mississippi
Texas Chiropractic College
San Antonio
Texas
Texas College
H. T. Sammons
Second Avenue
Box 1667
Alabama
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Toko-ri
Ranch Theatre
Fredric March
Mickey Rooney
William Perlberg
George Seaton
Mark Robson
Tacey Cromwell
Conrad Richter
Veiensal International Prianis
Technicolor
Carl Benton Reid
William Hopper
Jerry Hopper
Lawrence Roman
Robert Blees
Ross Hunter
Bowline Snesk
Benson
Wally Fowler
Decatur High School
the Statesmen
Howie Lister
Blackwood Brothers
James Blackwood
Jack Marshall
Louvin Bros
Trutone
Loyd
Goidel
Organization
James Bacon
D.C
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