Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 February 1951 — Page 9
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Gams, Guns and Guys Named Mike on Tap
Silvano Mangano Film at Keith's Is ‘Bitter’ Dish for the Esquire By R. K. SHULL GAMS, GUNS, “GUYS NAMED MIKE” and the originators of the “Tennessee Waltz” will be wrapped up in the week's theater offering. Add to that a new Italian star named Silvana Mangano. Here's what's coming, and where: “Call Me Mister”
(Indiana, Wednesday), “Sugarfoot” (Circle, Thursday) ,|when dressed completely from an-| ___'kles to Adam's apple. In this opus, |
lcourse, was only /8inging in the she only partially follows her own | |advice. She does dress completely |
{ in "Sugarfoot" (Circle, Thursday), Betty Grable in "Call Me Mis- | | ter” (Indiana, Wednesday), and Sulivan and Jane Wyman in "Three Guys Named Mike" (Loew's, |as a pleasantly padded Rita Hay-| | Thursday).
lan advertising salesman. In the/fame. He had the fine luck a few, : i (film their names are Mike. Ac- months ago to hit a moderate gamut. from oie Si un the} {tually they are Howard Keel, Van amount of success with his hopped | gyits {Johnson and Barry Sullivan. : Betty Grable goes to Japan as a|
“Three Guys Named Mike" | (Loew’s Thursday), Pee Wee ,; .," until the right man came
King and other rustics onjalong, so she and Scott settle stage at the Lyric Wednesday,| down to carve new lives for themand “Bitter Rice” (Keith’s,/selves. Wednesday). And in speaking of this film, it With “All About Eve” now in'might be nice to note here that its second week at the Esquire, Adele is the little girl who rethe North Side art house will start cently issued a big statement to “Joan of Arc” on Friday. the effect that being seductive is . Nu la mental state. She claimed that Silent Scott
girls: can do better with men WITH THE regularity of a Le | I id — metronome, post-Civil War westerns have been pouring out of] ove y ngri Hollywood into the local theaters, ; and the trend for the last year is to have Yankee blackguards| abusing former Confederates. “Sugarfoot” is the title of the latest in this endless chain of sagebrush scenarios, and Ran-| dolph Scott is the marble-faced hero. Scott goes West following the) war to get a new start and settle down. He's encouraged to operate| a freight business by S. Z. Sakall.| At the local saloon, Scott falls in| love with the star of the stage] show, Adele Jergens. (Did you| ever stop to wonder what sweet, | innocent and demure young blondes such as Adele are doing in cowtown saloons?) Anyhow, she is sweet and innocent and that's why Scott shoos away|§s Raymond Massey, who in uddition to being a crook also likes to paw Adele. Well, Massey gets hot under the collar and starts making life miserable for Scott until he gets too rough and Scott exterminates|
Ingrid Bergman as "Joan of Arc" has been shoved back a week on the schedule at the
Preview: 'Bitter Rice’
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An Italian film with English sub-titles, "Bitter Rice” will open at Keith's Theater Wednesday. Silvana Mangano (center) joins the
migrant female workers who atvuelly harvest the rice crop in the’
Po River valley. The girls work long, hard hours in the rice paddies, thinking mainly of the money they will earn. Some, such as Sil vana, crave excitement and escape. ;
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down to her ankles, but somewhere between her ‘elbows and {her armpits she forgot her sermon, It doesn’t detract from her
seductiveness, either. = = =
Grable in Geisha-Land
ALONG WITH Benay Venuta,
civilian actress following World {War II in “Call Me Mister.” There {she meets her ex-husband, Dan {Dailey.
{off before the war, since Dan was a chronic philanderer in those
|days, He's still packing the torch|
{for her and spends all four reels {trying to get back in her good |graces. | Of course, Betty, Benay and Danny Thomas are trying to
E| |stage a camp show in which Dan {has a vital part. The show (which {as with all stage productions pre-| |sented in movies) is a ‘blustering|
{success and the vehicle for Dan’s {final reclamation of Betty. The film is a liberal adaptation of the popular stage play which {smashed on Broadway a few sea{sons ago. Story line, some of the sketches and much of the music thas been changed from the stage ersion, but fortunately, the title is still intact. It’s in color. “ » n ’
Hosted Hostess
NO SOONER did Jane Wyman get her wings as an air stew-
Esquire Theater and now is |ardess than she met and fell inlord for pop music. him in the last reel. Adele, of slated to open thefe Friday. [love with a pilot, a scientist, and! This isn’t King's first taste of| To date, the big city
Doris Dowling and her boy friend (Victor Gassman), a thief, come to the rice fields to escape from the police. Gassman is attracted to Silvana, who helps Doris to get a job. Immediately, Gassman starts hatching a scheme to steal the big rice crop and make one giant haul.
Waltz” has completed its 14th|since the North Side theater not was presented the {week as the nation’s most popular only loses the chance to play the Award for his
"SUGARFOOT" |
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Loew's | HREE GUYS NAMED MIKE" | Coming attractions at the first-run theaters will include: The
Three Little Dickens, vocal trio with Pee Wee King at the Lyric Theater starting Wednesday; Randolph Scott and Adele Jergens
{have foregone any comment on {Silvana Mangano’s acting ability
marks endowments,
oward Keel, Van Johnson, Barry | go nag peen referred to mainly | worth, and none of the critics] {have failed to comment that her|
(up version of an old folk tune. He Competition gets pretty tough called that one “Bonaparte’s Re-| af between the boys, and Jane is treat.” ass on constantly confused by the multi-| With him for his week's stage °°): on Mikes.
Story line of the film concerns | (in assorted sizes and |
After several capers in|stint here will be his Golden West |
which the boys are friendly ene-|Cowboys troupe, a couple of va- Embarrassing Moment She had given Dan the brush-|
mies, they all propose at once, riety acts, and Max Terhune, Who| Now THAT the time Jane’s final choice provides the has, been seen here before oD oor the Motion Pict 18 Hisar snap ending. In case you haven't stage and in the horse operas. | e Motion Picture Academy
guessed by now, the title of this| opus is “Three Guys Named cohort, will be doing some of the relate a little incident in the
Mike.” vocals during the local engage-|1935 award ceremonies. Will iment. 5 Ba Rogers was emceeing the event land had become verbose in his PARLAYING a folk tune into a Troubles, Tr oubles pre-presentation laudits to the six-digit income was the good for- | JUST A FEW weeks ago In this| various winners. | tune of Pee Wee King, who has, column, the difficulty of the Es-|
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Rustics in Review
{ Frank Capra had been nomi-
been hitting the hillbilly and west- quire Theater in procuring good nated for the Best Picture Award. | ie
ern circuits for many years. {foreign films was exposed. Now, Capra listened closely to Rogers'| Shortly after the war, King col-|the Esquire can really hang out! one announcement speech, and laborated with one of the men the crying towel, what with a hot| when the late humorist “closed| in his Golden West Cowboys Italian production titled “Bitter with “Frank, come and get it,” troupe, Redd Stewart, to write a Rice” slated for Keith's down- Capra sprinted up the aisle to-| ditty called ‘Tennessee Waltz.” town. ’ {ward the platform. | King used it as his theme song for| Seems that the downtown-boys- After Capra had proceeded | a few seasons, then an upcoming snatched it right from under the about 40 feet toward the dias, he young vocalist named Pattf Page| Esquire’s nose. This creates a suddenly noticed that Rogers was! recorded the song. “Tennessee double negative for the Esquire, motioning to Frank Lloyd, who! Best Picture { “Mutiny on the tune, and now stands a good!film, but also has it running in! Bounty.” chance to break the all-time rec- competition with its current offer-| Capra calls his return to the |ing. table ‘‘the longest crawl on critics record.”
Silvana and the other "mondine"” [rice werlgrs) live in a milk Together in itary kind of discipline in the barracks. They pass their idle hours in dreams of luxury, or in Silvana's case, of wealthy men. She repeatedly turns down the attentions of an Italian army sergeant, Rof Vallone, who finds excuses to come to *he workers' camp. Val-
lone doesn’t measure up to her standards for excitement,
out of the way, to flood the fie
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Redd Stewart, King's composing Awards, it might be proper to) |
Doris is no longer in love with Gassman, and has turned her attention toward Vallone, With Doris
caught in their sabotage by Doris and Vallone.
Indiana "CALL ME MISTER"
Invites Kirk Douglas To Join Bachelor Club
Magazine Issues Bid Despite Report Actor to Wed Irene Wrightsman
By Erskine Johnson HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 17--Exclusively yours: No matter what people may be saying about the imminence of Kirk Douglas’ marMage to Irene Wrightsman, Screen Guild magazine just invited Kirk to join its “Bachelor Club for 1951”—and he accepted the invitation.
Irene’s stage debut with Kirk in a Phoenix version of
“ 3 1" I —————— ene | Detective Story" turned out Rio” off the shelf and remake it
{in the film in favor of witty re-| ’ concerning her natural t© be a gag. She's on stage with Carmen Miranda as the star.
{only
30 seconds, without a|The Brazilian chick’s quotes about single word of dialog, as a social- (it: ite claiming a lost article at a| “Honee, I hear nawthing about police station. it. Long time ago Horson wan ad nn me to be in story to theese peec-
THE RUMOR factory is grind- (tre. Long times I hear nawing out the whisper that Howard|“ "8° More. Hughes is about to take Orson
) “ Ending of Yvonne de Carlos Welles’ unreleased “Carnival in seven-year con tat UL was
strictly for budget reasons. She collected $2500 a week during the last year and demanded a big increase in salary. The studio nixed the raise and Yvonne nixed a new contract. . « . James Mitchell, who was discovered by Michael OCurtiz and hit a snag in his movie luck, is back in circulation with a new career guide, agent Robert Schwartz. "8 =» ; HELEN HAYES startling frank reason for returning to the ' |screen after 16 years in Leo McCarey’s “My Son, John”: : “The role is heavenly. It just appealed to the ham in me.” | Paramount has drawn the sheet | |metal curtdin over the plot of the |film but designer Edith Ward lslipped me this description of |Helen’s clothes: “They'll be the {kind that no woman will want be{cause they all have them. They're [real clothes, not Whistler's mother stuff.”
B Ld n 2 ABBOTT AND COSTELLO will
: {spoof tumbling weed epics in Roof for" dances tonight and |“Texas Badmen,” their next for
tomorrow night. ‘ Tomorrow's UL . .. Helene London is set for dance will feature "Lucky Spot" |a star buildup at Fox via a native contests. igirl role in “Friendly Island.”
Band at Roof
Freddie Shaffer will bring his
all-girl orchestra to the Indiana
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In the ensuing battle, Silvana becomes disgusted with Gass. man and murders him. Then, realizing that all is lost, she makes a dramatic suicidal leap to escape forever.
the barracks, Silvana learns that
Silvana joins Gassman in a plot Ids and steal the rice. They are