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Critics Heap Honors On UA Films, Talent
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Susan Hayward, voted Best Actress of Year by New York critics for Barbara Graham role in Figaro, Inc.'s "I Want To Live!", in one of the film's tensely dramatic scenes.
In eight short years the new United Artists has carved for itself a permanent niche in the motion picture production field, perhaps best exemplified by its near-complete sweep of the 24th New York Film Critics Awards.
UA, which is making its 40th anniversary in 1959 with world-wide celebrations lasting the entire year, had not always enjoyed such acclaim, however. For a long period before its renascence in 1951, in fact, the company had been buffeted by heavy losses and an acute product shortage. Then came Benjamin, Krim, Youngstein, et al., that dynamic management team who refused to believe that movie business should go any way but up. They provided the "shot
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in the arm" which UA needed to pull itself up by the bootstraps. The pull has been an amazingly swift and successful one.
The United Artists that was reorganized in February, 1951, retained the basic policy that had brought the original company so much affluence in its heyday. The independent producer was the solid foundation on which the present management rebuilt — and it has paid off handsomely, as witness the steady rise from near-disaster in '51 to an estimated $80,000,000 gross for '58.
And witness, too, the acclaim heaped upon United Artists' productions by the Gotham critics. The company captured no less than five of the coveted top six New York Critics Awards for 1958, which can usually be relied upon as harbingers of the forthcoming Aca
David Niven, who won Best Actor of Year award from New York Film Critics for role in Hecht-Hill-Lancaster's "Separate Tables," is shown above in scene with Deborah Kerr.
demy Awards. Stanley Kramer's "The Defiant Ones" was acclaimed the Best Picture of the Year, and Mr. Kramer was named Best Director for that film. "Defiant Ones" won this honor by only a nose, defeating another UA entry, the Hecht-Hill-Lancaster production, "Separate Tables". And, for good measure, third Best Picture honors went to UA's release, "The Horse's Mouth".
Best Actor honors went to David Niven for his role in "Separate Tables", and he barely won out over Alec Guinness ("The Horse's Mouth"). Best Actress? Why, Susan Hayward, of course, for her dynamic performance in the Figaro production, "I Want To Live!", a UA release, which Walter Wanger produced. Certainly '58 was UA's Year.
Tony Curtis, Sidney Poitier in scene from "The Defiant Ones," which carried off three prizes: Best Picture, Best Director (Stanley Kramer), Best Screen Writing (Nathan E. Douglas and Harold Jacob Smith).
Alec Guinness paints while model reads in his "The Horse's Mouth," which won third place in the New York balloting for Best Picture. Guinness' performance was rated second in Best Actor category.
Film BULLETIN January 5, 1959 Page 11