Word: actor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Actor Alda never quite conveys the inward drive that consumed Gershwin at the age of 38, but the sincerity and as surance of the surrounding players focus on him a force and dignity that make the central character amply credible...
Hollywood's Major Joppolo is a likable young man named John Hodiak whose earnest performance suffers mainly from its inevitable comparison with the expert underplaying of Actor March. The girl Tina (Gene Tierney), whose role is no clearer nor any more necessary in the picture than it is in the play, is a remarkably clean-looking girl who has apparently cornered all of war-ravaged Italy's remaining soap, and who tries to give an illusion of foreignness by talking very slowly...
Emil Jennings, back in U.S. pictures with a difference, was photographed at his villa in St. Wolfgang, Austria, as he played a familiar role for a new audience. To Allied questioners, the top-ranking Nazi actor-director explained that he made an anti-British film because Goebbels forced him to. Jannings, who once specialized at playing disintegrating old men, was beginning to look the part...
...muted menace and its well-designed explosions of violence, Blood on the Sun has much of the clean, sharp-nerved charm which used to distinguish the adventure romances of the late great Douglas Fairbanks Sr. A shade less inspired than Fairbanks as an athlete, Cagney is an even better actor. He cannot even put a telephone receiver back on its hook without giving the action special spark and life. Moreover, liberal Actor-Producer Cagney is a man of sense and good will. He takes care, even in the midst of this angry bit of patriotism, to show that there...
Credit Lines. Best performance by an actor: Frank Fay, as the gentle, rabbit-fancying tosspot in Harvey...