Photoplay (Jul-Dec 1959)

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p What’s on tonight? to see the best! Look for these new pictures at your favorite theater m ji«li m EXCELLENT GOOD VV'/ VERY GOOD V' FAIR Pillow Talk u-l; CINEMASCOPE, EASTMAN COLOR The New York Telephone Company does not officially serve as a lonely hearts club, but in this slick, bright and thoroughly winning comedy it gets two of its subscribers (Doris Day and Rock Hudson) together by putting them on a party line. Doris, usually as wholesome as all outdoors, and Rock, generally the solemn man of action, both turn citysophisticates here, and with sparkle (top left). In all good taste, director Michael Gordon keeps the atmosphere as intimate as the title “Pillow Talk” suggests and although the pillows concerned are in two different apartments, some splitscreen trickery brings Rock and Doris neatly together. You’ll be surprised at Rock’s new flair for chuckles, letting him stay on top of the situation with a pair of old comedy pros like Tony Randall and Thelma Ritter around. With Doris as an interior decorator, the movie has excuse for some handsome — and some hilariously ugly — sets and with Rock a songwriter, it introduces the hits you’ll be hearing: “Roly Poly,” “Pillow Talk” and “Possess Me.” All the songs slide smoothly into the action; in fact, the whole picture does. adult It Started with a Kiss m-c-m; cinemascope, metrocolor Vv'V'V Onscreen, Debbie Reynolds has been kept in the bluejeans-and-ponytail stage too long, so it’s refreshing to find her turned loose as a mature comedienne in a movie that hasn’t a thought in it but is funny indeed. Glenn Ford adds a sensible air to it all as he wrestles with his two problems: how to be a proper Air Force sergeant although you own a car too gaudy for a general and how to be a happy husband although your bride won’t share your bed. (See Debbie and Glenn, bottom left.) Eva Gabor and Gustavo Rojo lend European charm to a film that’s full of good shenanigans. adult UN FILM BOARD. Power Among Hlen de rochemont; eastman color VV'VV A powerful documentary made by the United Nations Film Board proves that fact can be as absorbing as fiction and real people equally fascinating, although its chief aim is more urgent. People of different nationalities, it says, can work together to make modern skills serve humanity, and the business of building or re-building is more exciting than destruction. The message is not given in abstract words ; you see it and feel it by watching villagers in Italy, farmers in Haiti, factory workers in Canada and scientists in Norway. And there’s a second idea, emphasized in a poetic commentary spoken by Laurence Harvey (of “Room at the Top”) : Not only can we work together — we must, if we want to survive. family ( continued) ■I I 26