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Hollywood Digs Spurs Into ‘Movietime’ Slogan
| By DICK MITTMAN Hollywood's unbashful ballyhoo. of its latest come-on slogan, “Movietime, U. S. A.” is off to a surprising start. The nationwide campaign reached Indianapolis this week, bringing with it a brace of movies that are actually
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Maugham; some nonsense about a cat that becomes a baseball ty-
coon, and a poignant that seems headed for Oscars. Opening Saturday at the Loew's ix “Cyrano de Bergerac. costarring Jose Ferrer, Mala Powers and William Prince. “peking Express,” featuring Joseph Cotten and Corrine Calvet, begins its first city run Thursday at the Lyric. The Esquire will show “I'rio’
love story
Friday. Tied in the triplet are “The Verger,” “Mr. Knowall” and “Sanatorium.”
Thursday . finds “Rhubarb” opening at the Circle. 1t co-stars Rav Milland and Jan Sterling. The Times preview of the week is “A. Place in the Sun.” 1t top; hills Montgomery Clift. Elizabeth Tavior and Shelley Winters, » > ~
Big Beezer The immortal swordsman with the long proboscis, “Cyrano de coming to the Starring Aas
Rergerac’ is J.oew's Saturday. Cyrano is Jose Ferrer. “Ferrer has won an academy award for his of the swash-buckling poet. The nose he
wears in the film measures 23%
inches from stern to top. Each beak cost $50 and he had to have a new one every day. Enacting the enchanting Roxane jx 18-year-old Mala Powers.. Her other roles before this were in Ilda Lupino’s “Outrage” and Edge of Doom,” She was chosen from some 200 applicants, Selected for the part of the inarticulate soldier, Christian, is William Prince. Prince has appeared in several movies such as
portrayal
“Destination Tokyo" and “Dead Reckoning.” -Among his many stage starring roles are “John
loves Mary” and “Forward the Heart.” The plot of the movie is much the same as the Edmond Ro-
stand's play. Cyrano, who can
talk with the beauty of a bhabbling brook, is in love with Rox-
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“All hoard." Hop on the “Peking Thursday) plosive action in China. This Far East trigue Joseph Cotten as a United Nations surgeon.
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lovely with whom Cotten was formerly in love, and Edmond Gwenn is a gentle: priest The Orient’s most famous train is halted by bandits headed by Marvin Miller, a fat, suave black marketeer. Miller's object of stopping the express is to take Cotten hostage and persuade Miss Calvet to work for him,
This marks the third picture in
a row that Cotten has made in an outside the U. 8. setting. In ‘The Third Man" Joseph traveled to Vienna in search of a dope peddler. ‘September Affair” found him cruising between Capri and Florence with Joan Fontaine.
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Triple Threat
There are three stories in one for movie goers at the Ksquire Friday. “rrio" takes three (“The Verger,” “Mr. Knowall” and “Sanatorium”) of W. Somerset
Maugham’'s many stories and puts them together in one film.
| “The Verger’ is the tale of a ‘church official, who is discharged from hig position after 20 years of service. A new vicar has discovered the verger could not read or write, What an old, illiterate man can do weaves an interesting plot. Nigel Patrick stars in “Mr Knowall.” On board a steamer, he becomes a bore to fellow pas sengers because of his self-pro-claimed omniscience. He does prove to a young lady that he i3 a gentleman despite his raffish manners. The loves and lives
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Montgomery Clift, poor but ambitious son of a religious mission worker, meets Shelley Winters in the factory of his rich uncle
in "A Place in the Sun" {
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Wednesday). Although there is a
strict rule prohibiting members of the owner's family from associating with the factory help, Clift meets'Shelley and they have a
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the Bathsheba,” “Rhubarb” will open at the Circle Thursday.
by J. Allen Smith, the movie stars Ray Milland and Jan Sterling. It is the that might be suspected, “Dem Bums" (Loons in the picture) of Brookof patientz/lyn are the fortunate team.
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INITIAL SCREENINGS—Among the first run attractions opening at theaters during the coming week are Ray Milland and Elsie Holmes co-starring in "Rhubarb" (Circle, Thursday);
William Prince as Christian and Jose Ferrer portraying Cyrano in "Cyrano de Bergerac'' (Loew's, Saturday); Joseph Cotten and Corrine Calvet featured in "Peking Express’ (Lyric, Thursday) and Nigel Patrick and Anne Crawford enacting commanding roles in
"Trio!" (Esquire, Friday). in a Scotland home for tuburcu- Brooklyn, whose baseball nine lars is the setting for “Sana- was once called the “Daffiness torium.” Boys,” anything can happen. Before each of the pictures, W The heir is a yellow alley feSomerset Maugham appears on line whose viciousness when capthe screen to give the background tyred keeps humans and dogs and mood. Al ine gone ot at a distance. With the passing Maugham = oo orig picture of ite master, a rich, old codger actor, who respected the cat for its guts, y uo the cat becomes the responsibility Cat—astrophe of Milland, who is named guar- : dian.
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After‘ association with people, the animal is tamed to a certain degree. It turns into a good luck charm for the Il.oons, who win the pennant with their owner in a special box. With one game left in the Series, the feline is cat-napped. All of Brooklyn hunts for their illustrious “Branch Rickey.” The movie iz climaxed with a hilarious mixup of gamblers, cats, In thugs, ball players and cops.
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After several months, Montgomesy is given a higher position in the plant. He is then able to mix with his uncle's many rich friends, including Elizabeth Taylor, whom he meets at a party. Miss Taylor is drawn to Clift because he seems so different from her other stuffy admirers. Rather hesitatingly, Liz's parents approve their marriage. : :
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‘In Hollywood—
Another Movie Trademark Is Clipped
By ERSKINE JOHNSON
HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 13- Guys Ann: and Dolls: Star trademarks, al- “I guess I'm supposed to be ready pretty much passe, took Evelyn Walsh MacLean." another KO the other day when » 8» a studio barber shaved off MOVE OVER Tony Martin, Adolphe Menjou's famed mus- ogy Brisson and Joe E. Lewis.
tache for a movie role. : ; Now it's Mark Stevens who's
hawking tunes, personality and jokes about Fave Emerson on the night club circuit in an act that cost him $25,000 for special material.
Only Jimmy Durante's nose, Gary Cooper's “Yep,” and Ann Harding's echignon are still going strong. ; But there will be no scissoring of the Harding tresses nn matter how many peopie wail that she might look more fashionable in a close-cropped hairdo.
Hollywood citizens who knew Mark as a retiring, mild-man-nered film star did a double-take
when he bounced out on the stage,
I hitow pow I'd look.” ADD ra¢t1ed off gags in the manner of a BIN . m PO I Ty Bob Hope, talked the lyrics to six pr / < s : hair for anyone. sides, it's S0' oe and tried a dance step or simple. 1 just wash it and put i J two. it up The length of the Harding But they pounded their mitts treases? ® as frantically as the rest of the “I can just sit on 'em," she audience and agreed that Holly whispered wood hadn't even scratched the Still gorgeous Ann and the fa- Star's talents miliar bun at the back of her g 2 ”
A MOVIE based on the life of Wallace Reid now that Hollywood is on a film star biography binge? Dorothy Reid. the widow of the dashing Wally, doesn’t think mov-
neck will soon be on TV in. a filmed serial, “Washington Lady.” in which the famous star of such pre-war. films as “Holiday! and “The Animal Kingdom.” plays
Meanwhile, Shelley realizes she is losing Montgomery. She tells him she is going to have a baby. She demands that he marry her at once or shell expose him to his wealthy friends. Clift agrees to the ceremony, but plans to murder her. He rents a boat and takes her out on the lake. At the last moment he decides against drowning her,
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into. Hollywood's history. “Why do Wally's storv or any other star's story of his era? There's no. public for it.”
Once an actress, Dorothy's now a film writer, turning out screenplays for “Rhubarb” and Francis, the talking mule. Write down the names of Eleanor Parker, Betty Hutton and Lana Turner as heiresses to movie glamor queen titles in the bearskin traditions of Marlene Dietrich, Gloria Swanson and Pola Negri.
Then make a note that fashion
designer Don Loper slipped us the word. Don, who just opened a new salon in Beverly Hills, is the leader of the down-with-the-girl-
next-door type of movie heroine and chief drum beater for the let's - have -more-movie-queens-in split-skirts-like-Marlene Dietrich Don's theory on Hollywood's lost glamor: “Hollywood stifled glamor when the girls-next-door charged onto the screen in puppy love stories “The producers tried to sex ‘em up in plunging necklines but they
THE capital hostess. Observed ie-makers should look backwards still looked phony because . thev
weren't thinking glamor. Yon can't make a doll look sophisticated unless she thinks it. “Now they're thinking again—and Eleanor, Betty and Lana are going to surprise a lot of people. There's glamor in clothes, sure, but real glamor is still in a womans mind and not on her back.” 5 ” = IRENE DUNNE and Gary Cooper may want to argue the point, but Hugo Haas, who acts, directs, writes and produces, is swearing. that unknown actors are box office these days. It's no longer important to have established people in good pictures,” says Haas, who's just completed his third independent, “Thy Neighbor's Wife." If a pictures right, big stars aren't needed. Even Clark Gable and Cary Grant can't save a bad picture.” Haas’ new discoveries: Blonde, busy Cleo Moore, who was once wed to Palmer Long, Huey's son, and Ken Garcia, a Mitchumish- - looking lad who spent a year at MGM without facing the cameras,
Miss Winters seems to grasp Montgomery's plot. She stands up in the boat and walks toward him. The boat capsizes and Shelley drowns as Clift swims back to shore. Clift is arrested that evening. At the trial he admits he was going to drown Shelley, but couldn't go through with it. However, the jury finds him guilty and he is
sentenced to die.