Film Preview – Bognor Regis Observer – Saturday, 19 July 1952

PAVILION, SELSEY. LOVE, life and laughter, and gay music and songs in Paris, form the background to Metro-Goldwyn Mayer's "RICH YOUNG AND PRETTY," which is showing for the first three days next week, at the Pavilion, Selsey. Leading stars in the production are Jane Powell, Danielle Darrieux, Wendell Corey, and two newcomers Fernando Lamas. from South America, and Vic Damone, an Italian-American. All the stars sing and the picture presents ten new songs, under the musical direction of David Rose, the famous composer of Holiday for Strings, who shines equally as a conductor. One of the most important releases on the 20th Century-Fox schedule, "DAVID AND BATHSHEBA." filmed in Technicolor and co-starring Gregory Peck and Susan Hayward, comes to the screen for the second half of the week. The film not only brings to the screen the tender and romantic love story of King David and the lovely Bathsheba, but also all the spectacle, vivid drama and magnificent pageantry of ancient Israel. With a cast of many thousands, the battles against the Philistines and Ammonites are recreated before our eyes in all their colourful splendour and barbaric fierceness. Memorable also are the scenes of the slaying of Goliath by the boy David and the stoning of the adulteress.