CinemaScope – Doyle's Space

How to Marry a Millionaire (1953)

Although The Robe, released earlier in 1953, became the first CinemaScope picture released to the public, How to Marry a Millionaire had actually completed production before The Robe.

How to Marry a Millionaire is a 1953 American romantic comedy directed by Jean Negulesco and produced and written by Nunnally Johnson for Twentieth Century-Fox. The film stars Betty Grable as Loco Dempsey, Marilyn Monroe as Pola Debevoise, and Lauren Bacall as Schatze Page, three New York models who decide that ordinary romance is not enough and set out to marry wealthy men. The supporting cast includes William Powell, David Wayne, Rory Calhoun, Cameron Mitchell, Alex D’Arcy, Fred Clark, and George Dunn.

Frankenstein 1970 (1958)

WARNING! “Frankenstein 1970” is the most blood-freezing horror ever created! This picture may be too dangerous for people with weak hearts! Beware!

I watched this 1958 B&W Allied Artists Pictures Corporation^[1] science fiction/horror film, shot in CinemaScope^[2], on Svengoolie. Baron von Frankenstein’s grandson (Boris Karloff) rents the family castle to a TV crew to fund his atomic revival of the family monster. Buying an atomic reactor, which he uses to create a living being, modeled after his own likeness before he had been tortured. by the Nazis. When the baron runs out of body parts for his work, he proceeds to kill off members of the crew, and even his faithful butler, for more spare parts.