Word: 20th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lodger (20th Century-Fox) is a shy, vaseline-voiced neuropathologist (Laird Cregar) who begins to puzzle his landlady (Sara Allgood) when he turns the pictures in his room against the walls. They are all pictures of actresses. The landlady's niece (Merle Oberon) is also an actress; she delights the habitues of London's late 19th Century music halls with her dilutions of the cancan. She wants to divert her aunt's shy lodger too. He is diverted so violently that everybody suddenly realizes that he is Jack the Ripper, the author of the series of murders...
Happy Land (20th Century-Fox) cinematizes MacKinlay Kantor's tender, folksy elegy for a typical American Boy who is killed in the war, and for his typical American father, who is thereby killed in the spirit. It is an unusual, sincere, sometimes touching film...
...Iowa town which gives Happy Land its Midwest authenticity is neither an Iowa town nor a 20th Century-Fox set. It is an astute selection of views of Santa Rosa, Calif, (with help from nearby Healdsburg and Sebastopol). Santa Rosa (1939 pop. 10,636) has been known chiefly as the home of the late great Luther Burbank. It now seems likely to become Hollywood's All-American Town. Santa Rosa is a museum of U.S. store and home architecture. The courthouse and square are solid Midwest. By turning a corner, you can get the white columns...
Last Sunday, Rabbi Mann, 53 and an outstanding Jewish American, marked his 20th anniversary at Chicago's Sinai Congregation. Said he: "If I had nine lives I should be a pastor nine times...
Guadalcanal Diary (20th Century-Fox) is a resourceful adaptation of Correspondent Richard Tregaskis' best-selling war book, and a straightforward, exciting picture. The Marines are first shown singing, loafing, ribbing each other aboard ship, responding quietly to the ground swell of their anticipation and their ignorance, taking very lightly (in a fine, honest scene) the reading-aloud of the rather pompous order which first tells them where they are going. These shipboard scenes and those in which the Marines land, find no enemy, and only slowly begin to learn about Jap snipers, are among the most real...