Modern Screen (Jan-Dec 1960)

new UNDER-ALL Don't make a move without your "guardian angel"— the dress shield that keeps you confident in comfort! Elasticized to stay put; $2.75. ONCE MORE, WITH FEELING Yul Brynner Kay Kendall music and madness Gregory Ratoff Geoffrey Toone Maxwell Shaw ■ Yul Brynner is a marvelous symphony conductor, but he is an impossible person. If it weren't for his wife (the late Kay Kendall) his temper tantrums would have ruined his career long ago. She smooths the way, faints at appropriate moments, is unfailingly charming. One day while she and Yul's manager, Gregory Ratoff, are out managing his career, Yul prepares to hear a 12-year-old child prodigy (Shirley Ann Field). Shirley, it seems, was the victim of a typographical error. She's 21. This delights Yul, who knows how to turn a private concert into a personal conquest. Unfortunately, when Kay comes home she kicks him out of the house. His career plunges while Kay is falling in love with a college president (she's teaching music at the college). A rich music lover, and orchestra sponsor (Grace Newcombe) agrees to sign Yul to a contract if he can prove that he and Kay have reconciled. Kay arrives at the right time and place (Yul's house) but for the wrong reason. She announces that she wants a divorce. The catch is, they were never legally married. Now Kay wants to get married so that she can get a divorce so that she can marry the president without having to seem like a fallen woman. Zany's what you call this film, and f un , too . — Tec h nicolorColumbia . WHO WAS THAT LADY? Tony Curtis Janet Leigh how to save your marriage BarE N-Tchois James Whitmore ■ When Janet Leigh sees Tony Curtis kissing another girl she's off to Reno — or says she is. And all this time she thought she was married to a simple college professor! Tony calls on his old college pal, Dean Martin, now a TV writer, to save him. He convinces Janet that Tony is an undercover FBI agent. Furthermore, says Dean, Tony knows the names of all professors working on secret projects. And. of course, he was kissing that girl in the line of duty. Didn't enjoy it a bit. Janet swallows this whole; particularly since Dean has provided Tony with a revolver and an FBI card (props from CBS). But, the prop man unwisely notifies the FBI. Now that Tony's in Dean's power, Dean ropes him into spending an evening with a couple of chorus girls (Barbara Nichols, Joi Lansing). Loyal Janet runs after Tony (into a Chinese restaurant) to give him his revolver. Janet is accompanied by FBI agent James Whitmore who plays it cool. In the powder room Janet hears what she considers a plot to assassinate her husband (it's the chorus girls discussing one of Dean's 'proposals') and starts a scuffle with the revolver. A cruising TV-newsunit truck drifts by and Janet tells the world about her brave husband. In the world are some real foreign agents who come after him in the morning. Well, that's marriage for you. — Columbia. THE HYPNOTIC EYE Jacques Bergerac Allison Hayes ■t u 7.:;i Marcia Henderson ij looks could kill . . . Merry Anders Joe Patridge ■ One would think that Jacques Bergerac didn't have to use any hocus-pocus to hypnotize the ladies, but here he is as the Great Desmond who has an eyeball throbbing with light (not his eyeball but a prop he uses on stage). Ladies come to see the show and then they go home arid do all kinds of terrible things to themselves. (One girl wen4, home and washed her hair in a gas burner — the burner was lit.) Detective Joe Patridge takes his girl. Marcia Henderson, and her friend, Merry Anders, to a Bergerac performance. It looks harmless; Merry volunteers to be hypnotized on stage and Bergerac's beautiful assistant. Allison Hayes, assists her. That night Merry douses herself with acid. Next night Marcia goes back to the theater and pretends to be hypnotized. Bergerac isn't fooled. Anyway, there's a monster in this picture who hates beautiful girls. Is it Bergerac? — Allied Artists.