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Newspaper

Decatur Daily

Location

Decatur, Alabama, United States of America

Date

May 06, 1956

Page

6

The Swan and Picnic Dominate Local Movie Week

Grace Kelly stars in The Swan a romantic comedy filmed in CinemaScope with Alec Guinness Louis Jourdan Agnes Moorehead Jessie Royce Landis Brian Aherne Leo G Carroll Estelle Winwood and Van Dyke Parks. The story follows Princess Alexandra torn between marriage and love set around Beatrix and a Hungarian castle.

Grace Kelly M-G-M Ferenc Molan Tae Alec Guinness Louis Jourdan Agnes Moorehead Jessie Royce Landis Brian Aherne Leo G. Carroll Estelle Winwood Young van Dyke Parks Hungary Alexandra Beatrix Albert Taney Seneahae England Hollywood the Swan Miss Kelly Guinness Robert

Man Who Never Was A Spy Drama At Princess Theatre

The Man Who Never Was is billed as a chilling true espionage drama starring Clifton Webb and Gloria Grahame at the Princess Theatre today. Based on Ewen Montagu’s best seller it recounts a British World War I ruse to misdirect German forces with a combined Anglo American production featuring Ronald Neame and Nigel Balchin.

Naval Intelligence Clifton Webb Gloria Grahame Princess Theatre Ewen Montagu Lane Andre Hakim Ronald Neame Neame Nigel Balchin The Ledger Hakim Debontiaire Britain Atlantic Robert Flemyng Stephen Boyd Josephine Griffin

First Novel Wins Acclaim Cast Makes Cobweb Film Debut

William Gibson’s first novel The Cobweb, set in a Massachusetts psychiatric clinic, became an overnight success and is now a CinemaScope film from M G M starring Richard Widmark Lauren Bacall Charles Boyer Gloria Grahame Lillian Gish and John Kerr. The book owes its creation to daily letters to an editor who mentored him. Critics hail it as a top new writer debut and it opens Wednesday at the Princess.

William Gibson Gibson M-G-M Richard Widmark Lauren Bacall Charles Boyer Gloria Grahame Lillian Gish John Kerr the Princess New York Massachusetts Susan Strasberg Oscar Levant Tommy Rettig

Life Span of Date Palm as Fruit Tree

The date palm bears fruit fully at around twenty years old and loses significance as a fruit producer after about sixty years of life.

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