Photoplay (Jul-Dec 1951)

p so it came to pass that David, the Lion of Judah, looked upon Bathsheba . . for her, he broke God's own commandment! and a cast of many thousands! AND pATHSHEBA captured in Color by Technicolor starring GREGORY SUSAN Peck Hayward Produced by DARRYL F. ZANUCK Directed by HENRY KING Written for the Screen by PHILIP DUNNE COLOR BROCHURE WHICH TELLS THE FASCINATING STORY BEHIND DAVID AND BATHSHEBA! WRITE TO ‘DAVID and BATHSHEBA P.O. Box 292, DEPT. FM2, CHURCH ST. STA., N.Y.C. ^14 (F) On the Loose (RKO-Filmakers) IlfHEN parents are indifferent and selfish ft they can be even more delinquent than children. This is the theme of this absorbing little story which should be a “must” for parents of teen-age children. More interesting than most stories with a message, it deals with the problem of a pretty young high school girl, played beautifully by Joan Evans, and her gradual involvement in harmless but cheapening indiscretions. In despair, she finally attempts suicide, shocking her father into complete awareness. Her mother, Lynn Bari, finally sees the light, too, when Joan voluntarily takes the witness stand to clear her father of an assault charge on a youth who besmirched her name. Melvyn Douglas plays the father and Robert Arthur is the boy Joan loves. Your Reviewer Says; A treat and a treatment for parents. Program Notes: Joan Evans is lucky to have parents as talented as Katherine Albert and Dale Eunson, who wrote this script for producer Collier Young. And Katherine and Dale are fortunate to have a daughter talented enough to give depth and understanding to their work. To make sure the film would appear authentic in every way, four high school pupils were employed as technical advisers. It became their duty to read the script, make suggestions for corrections and act as linguistic experts, high school students having a language of their own . . . Such steps as the Sheep Dip, Bee’s Knees and Cross-floor W obbles were mastered by Melvyn for a scene with Joan. He insists, however, the steps weren’t too difficult to master. After all, he won a Charleston contest in East Orange, N. J., in 1926. V\/2 (A) Tomorrow Is Another Day (Warners) n UTH ROMAN and Steve Cochran, a pair II of unsavory characters, meet up in an unsavory dance hall and end up in an unsavory field of lettuce. What happens in between packs considerable action and carries on like a real down-to-earth movie. The pace begins when Steve, an ex-convict, escorts Ruth home one evening and finds her boy friend, Detective Hugh Sanders, waiting. In the melee that follows, Sanders is wounded. He dies the following day. Ruth and Steve then flee together pausing long enough to marry. Their guilt and fear render their life grim and ugly. The climax comes when Steve is recognized. To prevent her husband from committing another murder, Ruth whips out a gun and shoots Steve in the shoulder. There’s a turn-about at the end. Lurene Tuttle, Lee Patrick, Ray Teal complete the cast. Your Reviewer Says: So live that tougher other half. Program Notes: Ruth Roman claims she all but froze to death making the outdoor, allnight scenes. She and Steve wrapped themselves in blankets and hovered over glowing braziers . . . Steve Cochran s mother traveled from her home in Juneau, Alaska, to visit her son while the film was in production. She was shocked at the amount of work and time Steve was required to give to the picture. Like most people outside Hollywood, she thought movie actors only played while “play-acting.” The only contention arose when Steve refused to shave his chest for an open-shirt scene. Director Felix Feist lost the argument when Ruth declared she didn’t care and didn’t see why women in audiences should either. (A) People Will Talk (20th Century-Fox) “4 STRANGE comedy” they call this ™ Frankly, it’s a bit too strange foi credulity or entertainment. And yet, there is merit, intelligence and sound thinking underlying its basic theme: medicine versus the soul and the ego. Briefly, it telle of a doctor, Noah Praetorius, who marries a patient, Jeanne Crain, who is pregnant by another man. Neither the good doctor you see, played by Cary Grant, nor Jeanne, can bear to tell her failure of a father the crushing truth. Once married, Cary and Jeanne are extremely happy until Dr. Praetorius is brought to an investigation by a mean little professor, Hume Cronyn. He wants to know why the doctor at one time during his practice ran a butcher shop and, who is the man, Shunderson, who trails him around. We were on Cronyn’s side. We wanted to know, too. Anyway, it’s all revealed in time for Cary to conduct a symphonic orchestra and if you’re as confused at this moment as we suspect, take two aspirins and go to bed. Walter Slezak seems the only real human being in a cast including Sidney Blackmer, Finlay Currie and Basil Ruysdael. Your Reviewer Says: Psychosomatic medicine doled out with wry humor. Program Notes: After his “All About Eve,” producer Darryl Zanuck gave director Joe Mankiewicz a free hand in choosing his next. He chose this story whose facade is humor and whose foundation rests on a serious contemplation of the medical profession today . . . Cary Grant, chosen for the lead, gave his role serious study, constantly asking advice on certain bits from his own physician. For his side role of symphony conductor, he took instructions from Alexander Steinert, switching from his natural left-handedness to waving the baton with his right hand. (A) The People Against O’Hara (M-G-M) THEY talk characterization in this story but do not portray it. Spencer Tracy, according to the testimony of several cast members, is a lush who dares not imbibe a drop stronger than rainwater. Character undermined by strong drink is hinted as reason for his bribery of a witness. But Mr. Tracy is too healthy and normal, too manly in his approach to life to have you believe any such thing. Yet this is a good story, and in many ways worth seeing, i Tracy plays a criminal lawyer who when his health breaks under the strain turns to civil practice. He turns again to a criminal case, however, when Jim Arness, the son of old friends, is accused of murder. The result you must see for yourself. Diana Lynn plays Tracy’s daughter; John Hodiak, the assistant district attorney; Pat O’Brien a detective and Bill Campbell the cantankerous witness, Frankie Korvac. Your Reviewer Says: Absorbing, despite story weaknesses. Program Notes: Tracy and his old friend Pat O’Brien, who were inseparable pals when both were battling for a foothold on Broadway, are teamed here for the first time. The reminiscences exchanged on the set were something to hear . . . Diana Lynn was on a personal appearance tour when the offer came to play Tracy’s daughter. She grabbed it by long distance telephone . . . John Hodiak, who was expecting his first child, received all sorts of advice from Tracy and O’Brien, both fathers themselves. These bits of caution were carried home by Hodiak to his wife, Anne Baxter. : J 28