Movie Guide Highlights VistaVision and Color Attractions
This week’s listings cover Center Theater showings through Tuesday with To Catch a Thief and The Left Hand of God in color and CinemaScope. Palace Theater features The Shrike and Marty with related titles and star pairs.
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VistaVision
Cary Grant
Grace Kelly
God
Humphrey
Gene Tierney
Canadian Rockies
Gene Autry
Robert Mitchum
Shelley Winters
Dale Robertson
Evelyn Keyes
Hell and
Audie Murphy
Dennis Morgan
Palace Theater
Thomasville
Jose Ferrer
June Allyson
Marty
Ernest Borgnine
Betsy Blair
Davidson Theater
Laramie
James Stewart
Victor McLaglen
Judy Garland
Ray Bolger
Walt Disney
Victoria Shaw rises from Sydney to Hollywood stardom
Victoria Shaw, an Australian model nicknamed The Face, travels to Hollywood after Bob Hope's nudge. She quickly tests at Columbia for The Eddie Duchin Story, then heads to New York City for location scenes with Tyrone Power, touted as Hollywood's next Cinderella.
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Victoria
Hollywood Story Power
Kim Novak
James Bacon
Hollywood
Victoria Shaw
Sydney
Bob Hope
Australia
Hope
Bob
Los Angeles International Airport
Louis Shurr
Louis
Shurr
Columbia
Eddie Duchin
New York City
Tyrone
TV In Most Competitive Season Yet
Charles Mercer notes TV networks fight for audience with NBC bidding 100000 for 730 PM slot and a full hour of Perry Como at 8. CBS plans Honey Mooners at 830 and color specials with Judy Garland Noel Coward Mary Martin. Ed Sullivan 8 PM on CBS face Colgate Variety Hour on NBC. Jack Benny 730 on CBS with Ann Sothern. NBC airs Frontier.
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Charles Mercer
New York
ABC
CBS
NBC
Jackie Gleason
Gleason
Perry Como
Como
George Gobel
Gobel
Judy Garland
Mary Martin
Noel Coward
Bingame
Ed Sullivan
Colgate
Jack Benny
Ann Sothern
Frontier
Gygiona
Peop
Hitchcock Transition Skips Time for TV Creations
The article notes Hitchcock now works for television with rapid three day shoot schedules. He jokes that Paramount and Warner Bros would question why a 90 minute film needs 98 days, while TV prioritizes speed over high crafted quality. The piece highlights contrasts between TV and feature production.
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Paramount
Warner
Doris Day Starred in The Man Knew Too Much Thriller
PROM PAGE SIX-A noted Doris Day in a non musical thriller The Man Knew Too Much. Doris portrays a singer drawn into an assassination plot as director Alfred Hitchcock praised her dramatic range beyond fluffy musicals.
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Doris
Stewart
Naitehcock
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