Best American Movie Stars for 1954: Marion Brando and Grace Kelly Time magazine January 1955 Κινηματογραφικά

 

Best American Movie Stars for 1954

Marlon Brando and Grace Kelly

Time magazine January 1955

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Grace Kelly   (photo: Time)

 

 

 

The Winners

 

   This time of year, critics, exhibitors trade papers and assorted know-it-alls select their cinema bests—and after checking over the 1954 crop. the choices were pretty automatic all the way.

   At the top of the heap: Marlon Brando and Grace Kelly.

 

   For the best acting job of his career, as a true-to-life patsy in On the Waterfront (1954, directed by Elia Kazan), Marlon Brando got the nod from the New York Film Critics. Film Daily and the Hollywood stars themselves, who were polled by the United Press.

 

   Newcomer Grace Kelly. who smoothly dressed up Rear Window (1954, directed by Alfred Hitchcock), Dial M for Murder (1954, directed by Alfred Hitchcock) and Green Fire (1954, directed by Andrew Marton) with what Director Alfred Hitchcock has called her “sexual elegance,” but who performed most stunningly in her biggest acting part as the embittered wife in The Country Girl (1954, directed by George Seaton), won hands up with the New York Film Critics and the National Board of Review.

 

 

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   As usual, the choices generally did not agree with the top box-office grossers for the year. The five big money pictures so far (in the U.S. and Canada only), reported by Variety:

/ - 1) Paramount's “White Christmas” [nusical film, directed by Michael Curtiz] which, though it has been playing less than three months, has already grossed $12 million;

/ - Columbia's “The Caine Mutiny” [drama, military trial film, directed by Edward Dmytryk], $8.700.000;

/ - Universal's “The Glenn Miller Story” [biographical film, directed by Anthony Mann] $7,000,000;

/ - Fox's “The Egyptian” [epic historical film, directed by Michael Curtiz] $6,000,000;

/ - Paramount's “Rear Window” [mystery thriller film, directed by Alfred Hitchcock] $5.300.000.

 

 

 

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   Motion Picture Herald, which polls the men who should know—the exhibitors— found John Wayne the No. 1 box-office draw, although Wayne made only two films eligible in 1954: Hondo [1953, western, directed by John Farrow] and The High and the Mighty [1954, aviation disaster film, directed by William Wellman].

Runners-up:

Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis.

Gary Cooper.

James Stewart,

Marilyn Monroe,

Alan Ladd,

William Holden (first time to figure in the first ten).

Bing Crosby,

Jane Wyman (first time),

Marlon Brando (first time).

 

 

 

 

 

Time magazine, vol. LXV, No. 2, January 10, 1955, [section: Cinema], p. 82.

 

 

 

 

 

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