George Justin's onscreen credit reads "This film was under the special supervision of George Justin." The film is broken into three parts that are announced by the following written titles: "Part I...Portrait of a Young Girl...Maryland 1930," "Part II...Portrait of a Young Woman...Hollywood 1947" and "Part III...Portrait of a Goddess...1952." According to a Jul 1957 NYT article, the interior scenes of the film were shot at the Gold Medal Studios in the Bronx, New York, and location shooting was done in Maryland and in Hollywood. Location filming was also done at the Beverly Hills Hotel in Beverly Hills and at the Fox Village Theater in Westwood, California. The Goddess marked the first original screenplay by Paddy Chayefsky, who at the time was known as a playwright specializing in television dramas. The film also marked the screen debut of stage actress Kim Stanley and John Cromwell's return to directing after a seven year hiatus. Although child actress Patty Duke had made her feature film debut in Country Music Holiday (see entry), shortly before her appearance in The Goddess, the latter film marked her first onscreen credit. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Writing. Many reviewers noted that Marilyn Monroe served as a prototype for the character "Emily Ann Faulkner." A May 1958 news item in LA Mirror News notes that Chayefsky denied the character was based on Monroe after the actress' husband, playwright Arthur Miller, objected to naming Monroe as a prototype for the film's lead character. ...
Frank Capra produced a series of science films for Bell Laboratories including: Our Mr. Sun (1956), Hemo the Magnificent (1957), The Strange Case of the Cosmic Rays (1957), and Meteora: The Unchained Goddess (1958).
The Goddess Movie 1958
She was about to start filming a new movie, Another Time, Another Place, with Sean Connery in London. It would be her first production for her company, Lanturn. In the meantime she continued her affair with Stompanato.
She was briefly on top again, and some of the other movies she made in the 60s, including Portrait in Black and Madame X, also reflected her personal scandals. There was an undercurrent of violence in these films which seemed linked to her sex appeal.
1958 Columbia Pictures drama film starring Kim Stanley and Lloyd Bridges. Others in the cast include Steven Hill, Betty Lou Holland, Joan Copeland, Patty Duke, and Elizabeth Wilson. The movie was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.
Meteorologists predict temperatures may reach 100 degrees this week in the Palm Beaches. What do people do when the temperature climbs to uncomfortable heights? They head for the refreshing air-conditioning of the movie theatre!
The Boynton Theatre at Lake (Boynton Beach Blvd.) and U.S. 1 (Federal Highway) originally featured silent movies, and a theatre employee provided dramatic music on the piano. The building had one screen and wooden floors. In the 1950s, a quarter-dollar bought two feature movies, a cartoon, and a newsreel. Popcorn cost 5 cents. Church groups met in the theatre building before construction of their own buildings, and businesses occupied the second floor.Vintage movie theatre brochures provide a glimpse back in time. Look at the entertainment selections from April 1959!
This imposing, emotional stage actress also made an occasional inroad into film and TV since the 1950s. After studying at the Pasadena Community Playhouse and New York's Actors Studio, Stanley appeared in a number of shows before making her Broadway debut replacing Julie Harris in "Monserrat" (1949). Her first major success came as the lovesick tomboy sister in William Inge's "Picnic" (1953), which led to further theatrical successes as nightclub "chantoosie" Cherie in Inge's "Bus Stop" (1955), the rebellious daughter in Eugene O'Neill's "A Touch of the Poet" (1958), one of Freud's patients in "A Far Country" (1961) and Masha in a 1964 revival of "Three Sisters," which was also filmed.Stanley began making TV appearances on the "Golden Age" dramatic anthologies, "Danger," "Goodyear TV Playhouse," "Studio One," "Magnavox Theater" and others from the early 1950s. She won an Emmy for her turn on a 1963 "Ben Casey" episode that dealt with mercy killing and made her TV-movie debut in the family drama "Flesh and Blood" (NBC, 1986). The following year she appeared in "U.M.C." (CBS), the pilot for the series "Medical Center." Her performance as Big Mama in a PBS/Showtime production of "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" (1984) won Stanley a second Emmy.Her big screen career has been extremely uneven and frustrating. Stanley's debut was in "The Goddess" (1958), she managed to turn in an intelligent performance despite being ludicrously miscast as a Marilyn Monroe-inspired sexpot. She was again impressive as a medium in the low-budget "Seance on a Wet Afternoon" (1964). Despite earning an Oscar nomination as Best Actress, Stanley left films for 18 years. She returned to features as the rapacious monster mother of disturbed actress Frances Farmer (Jessica Lange) in "Frances" (1982), for which she earned a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nod. This was followed by another great turn as early barnstorming pilot Pancho Barnes in Philip Kaufman's space-race saga "The Right Stuff" (1983). By this time, however, Stanley was devoting most of her time to teaching drama at the College of Santa Fe in her native New Mexico.
Trivia: B.A.S. simultaneously made the movie in Tamil with the same set of actors and technicians adding ace Tamil comedian Thangavelu to the cast. Released on May 28, 1958 it also met with box office success.
Released on April 9, 1958Chenchulakshmi celebrated 100 day run in five centres and all the major actors went round the centres to participate in the celebrations.The function was held at Poorna theatre in Vizianagaram.
Screenplay writer Paddy Chayefsky, and indeed everyone involved with the film, insisted that The Goddess wasn't really all about Marilyn Monroe. Nawww. Kim Stanley plays a neglected young woman living in poverty who aspires to be a movie star. She gets a few roles here and there on looks alone. She marries a washed-up athlete (Lloyd Bridges) who becomes fiercely jealous of her sex appeal. She sleeps her way to the top, then finds that her success is hollow. Regarded in many circles as the pinnacle of dramatic art in 1958, The Goddess is more likely to invoke howls of laughter from today's in-the-know audiences. The most famous bit: Patty Duke, playing Kim Stanley as a child, telling her pet cat that she got promoted in school. Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
The Enemy Below. One of the bestmovies ever made about naval warfarethe story of a duel between aU.S. destroyer escort (Robert Mitchum) and a German sub (Curt Jürgens)in the South Atlantic (TIME, Jan. 13). 2ff7e9595c