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‘Streetcar’ Is Ahead In Awards Race
By Kathleen Cvengros . Movie-goérs may be viewing an Academy Award-win-ning picture Friday if the opinion of critics means anything
—and it often does.
“Streetcar Named Desire,” starting Friday at the
Circle, for the first time at popular prices, has been heralded as a potential Award winner of the year. “Aaron Slick From Punkin Crick” which stars Alan Young and Dinah Shore starts Friday at the Indiana and promises to be a real rib-tickler. Loew’s brings to the screen Saturday one of the most magnificent productions seen in a long time, “African Queen,” starring Katherine Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart. A release of one of the most intensely dramatic movies ever made is scheduled for Friday at the Esquire when “Of Mice and Men” featuring Lon Chaney Jr. and Burgess Meredith, opens. Also playing is “Sundown” with Gene Tierney and George Saunders. Wednesday finds “Return of the Texan,” starring Dale Robertson and Walter Brennan, ready to open at the Lyric. Held over for a second week, but moving to Keith's this time, is “Viva Zapata!” with Marlon Brando and Jean Peters sharing the billing. The Ritz theater, in Keeping with its new pelicy, “Curtain Time 8:30,” brings to the screen “The Browning Version’ with Michael Redgrave and Jean Kent, beginning Tuesday.
Hoosier Stars
Karl Malden, his original Broadway stage role for the picturization of “A Streetrar Named Desire,” once worked as a steel worker in factories lorated in his home town of Gary, Ind. Malden first answered the lure of the theater by attending (Goodman Theater in Chicago. After a trying few months in New York, he got his first big break in “Golden Boy.” From then on, he became identified as one of the footlight’s first ranking character leading men, with outstand-
who appears in
ing performances in “Key Largo” and “All My Sons.” “Streetcar” is the extraordinary play that won the Pulitzer Prize and the New_York Drama Critics’" Award in the course of its Broadway run and is well in the running for Academy Awards for three of its stars, Marlon Brando, Vivien Leigh and Kim Hunter.
Just. an Ordinary Guy The star of “Aaron Slick From Punkin Crick” is a young fellow with the “every man” look in his face. Alan Young plays the role of a shy rural bumpkin who somehow sends the city slicker— Robert Merrill — into rapid retreat. He sings, dapces and clowns his way through” the elaborate musical which also stars Dinah Shore. Born in England and raised in British Columbia, Mr. Young hit the big. time_by a fluke, He was writing and starring in his own comedy show. on the Canadian Broddcasting Corp. when a talent agent dialed the program by accident in New York. He was immediately taken ‘by the freshness of the material and performance and arranged to put Young on the American networks as summer replacement for Eddie Cantor.
Award Winner “The Browning Version,” won awards. at Berlin Film Festivals recently, At* Michael Redgrave and Jean Kent both received top acting awards, and at Berlin, Redgrave was awarded top honors. The film has also been selected hy the National Board of Review as ‘one of the top .10 foreign films of the year.” Adapted for the screen by TerRattigan from his own successful play, the film is an absorhing drama of a school teacher who commands little respect from
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. Charlie Allnut (Humphrey Bogart) is the gin-swilling easy-go-ing Canadian expatriate whose little motor boat, "The African Queen," carries mail to the river settlements deep in the African
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his wife. However, he receives inspiration in a very strange way, and asesrts himself at last.
No Place Like Texas
“Return of the Texan” tells of the homecoming of a capable, robust young man, Dale Robertson, who finds city life unbearable after the death of his young wife. He decides to bring his two small children back to the land on which he was raised. Working again on the soil, under the sun, the widower finds his interest in life reborn and is again able to meet the challenges of nature as they confront him and are pointed out by his still agile grandfather.
Ray Milland i]
Takes to Dancing |
Ray Milland is the latest square dance enthusiast, The actor learned the dance when he at-|
tended square dance parties at a
Mormon meeting hall in Utah during location filming on his latest picture “Bugles in the Afternoon.” |
Writes of Bullfighting Gilbert Roland, Hollywood star, has written a short story on hullfighting which is under consideration by a national magazine. Roland, whose father was a matador -in Spain, is recognized as an authority on the subject. “No Shade in the Sun’ takes a poke at people who condemn bullfighting without knowing much about the sport,
and scornful of: Allnyt,
When World War | breaks out Charlie rescues Rose Sayer (Katharine Hepburn), the strait-laced sister of the English missionary who dies after the Kaiser's African troops burn down the village and mission. Rose is badly shaken by her brother's death
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STARTING SOON—Giving you a well-rounded bill of entertainment fare are the pictures scheduled for the first-run theaters this coming week. Starring in "Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick” (Loew's, Saturday) are Alan Young-and Dinah Shore; that dynamic newcomer Dale Robertson shares top honors with Joanne Dru and Walter Brennan in "Return of the Texan" (Lyric, Wednesday); a re-issue of note, "Of Mice and Men," features Lon Chaney Jr. and Burgess Meredith (Esquire, Friday); returning, at popular prices this time, is "Streetcar Named Desire’ with Vivien Leigh and Marlon Brando sharing the stellar roles (Circle, Friday) and, after joining the first-run field for the first time, the Ritz is bringing "The Browning Version'sto the public Tuesday.
Rose is vengeful against the Germans and Their - plan the ill-matched pair set off down the African river to blow up the German gunboat, "Louisa" against the better judgment of Charlie, who calls Rose a 'silly, psalm-singing old maid."
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Troublesome Twosome
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May Star Together
By Erskine Johnson
HOLLYWOOD, Mar. 15
— Exclusively Yours: Well,
rip my shirt down the back and call me Marlon Brando—
if negotiations aren’t going on for Tom Neal and Barbara Payton to co--star for producers Gordon Kirkwood and
|Roger Kendall in “Prisoner of] {until her death or remarriage current| prisoner-of-war
War.” It's a yarn based on {headlines about exchange negotiations between the United Nations - and Red |China, with Tom slated to play an American soldier and Barbara to fill out the uniform of an Army nurse. Movie exhibitors, claims Kendall, are crying for the Neal-Pay-ton combination. “The public,” says Kendall, “js the first to forgive stars who have made human mistakes. Tom's a good actor and Barbara's boxoffice.” ” ” » BOR TAYLOR'S up on the set of “Eagle on His Cap” to all questions about whether he'll 4rv matrimony again now that Barbara 8Stanwyck's pic ker her final divorce decree. TheM's nothing serious. 1 keep up with my life hy reading the gosgip columns.”
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Asked about the stiff alimony rap independently wealthy Barbara pinned on him- a $100,000
home and 15 per cent of his salary
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misfires and they are picked by the Germans. The dynamite-loaded "African Queen" sinks in a sform. The two are sentenced to hang. At their request, the German captain marries them before the execution,
up
he sputtered: ‘Her lawyer must have given
that out. I've never discussed it.”
” » . RUDD WEATHERWAX is the winner in a big behind-the-sccnes legal wrangle at MGM now that I.assie’'s no longer undér contract to the studio. The dog's moniker was changed from Pal to Lassie by the studio. Now months of haggling, plus a hig cash payment, give Rudd all rights to the l.assie name for TV, radio and
future movies, n ” J
LANA TURNER'S about {o be embroiled in the middle of a lawe suit slapped on Bob Topping by Willis Hunt. He is ‘partner in a
plastics company Insiders insist that Louis’ B. Mayer has been exchanging cables with Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini about a picture to be made under the new Mayer banner . .. Spring's in the air. Hedy Lamarr has taken up golf,
But the "Queen" is floating below the surface of the water, The German. gunboat strikes
her, blowing both boats te pieces,
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