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In February 1953 Payne was ruled out of the film and was replaced by Gene Barry, who had just starred in War of the Worlds. [8] He was joined by singer Guy Mitchell and performing group The Bell Sisters. [9] Jean Parker who had made a number of films for Pine-Thomas in the 1940s returned to the screen for the first time in three years to play a ...
Four Sided Triangle was an early effort by Hammer Films.The laboratory set includes "a welter of retorts, alembics, rheostats and plain, old neon tubing". [7] This chaotic, improvised laboratory setting has been contrasted with the sophisticated labs portrayed in the Universal Horror films of the 1930s. [8]
The 11th Golden Globe Awards also honored the best films of 1953. There was no award for Best Picture in either the Musical or Comedy categories. Spencer Tracy won the Golden Globe for Best Actor in a drama film for The Actress, while David Niven won Best Actor in the Musical or Comedy genre for The Moon Is Blue.
This is the last Disney animated movie released in partnership with RKO Pictures, becoming the last ever smash hit movie of the later company before it bankrupted in 1959. February 25 – Jacques Tati's film Les Vacances de M. Hulot is released in France, introducing the gauche character of Monsieur Hulot. [5]
BOAC Flight 783 broke up in midair and crashed near Calcutta, India, killing all 43 people aboard. [5]Hussein was crowned King of Jordan.On the same day, Faisal II, Hussein's cousin, assumed his constitutional powers as King of Iraq.
This is a list of films which placed number one at the weekly box office in the United States during 1953 per Variety's weekly National Boxoffice Survey. The results are based on a sample of 20-25 key cities and therefore, any box office amounts quoted may not be the total that the film grossed nationally in the week.
The world's first film poster (to date), for 1895's L'Arroseur arrosé, by the Lumière brothers Rudolph Valentino in Blood and Sand, 1922. The first poster for a specific film, rather than a "magic lantern show", was based on an illustration by Marcellin Auzolle to promote the showing of the Lumiere Brothers film L'Arroseur arrosé at the Grand Café in Paris on December 26, 1895.
On July 17, 2007, Warner Home Video and Turner Entertainment released Dangerous When Wet on DVD as part of the Esther Williams Spotlight Collection, Volume 1. The five-disc set contained digitally remastered versions of several of Williams's films including Bathing Beauty (1944), Easy to Wed (1946), On an Island with You (1948) and Neptune's ...