The Silver Chalice (MOD)

The Silver Chalice (MOD)He looks like Marlon Brando, some reviewers said of this movie's 29 year old star, but those comparisons would soon end. Soon to impress with his own intense brilliance, Paul Newman made his movie debut in this Biblical saga in the mode of Quo Vadis and The Robe. Set in Rome during the early Christian era, if focuses on an ill fated sculptor sold into slavery and torn between his adoring wife (Pier Angeli) and a wily temptress (Virginia Mayo) and

Caught in the middle is Mary Wilkins (Beulah Bondi)

Wings of the Navy's story concerns two pilot brothers (George Brent and john Payne) who fall for the same girl (Olivia de Havilland

Co-starring Paul Henreid ("Casablanca")

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Madrid blackmails her into taking him to Mitchell

The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Costume Design and was the first feature-length movie in black-and-white CinemaScope

The irreverent

Retiring from the screen in 1948

The passion of their conflict becomes a love neither can succumb to

and the children

All they want is to say I do

Fay Wray (King Kong) stars as the intended next victim of a mad wax sculptor obsessed with her resemblance to one of his prior creations