Word: actresses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chinese Cinemogul Yen is not given to Hollywood hyperbole like "sensational" and "terrific." When he first signed the slinky, unknown actress Li Lihua, he told his friends simply: "I am setting out a beautiful tree that money drops from." He was right. Li's first movie packed them in. Last week her latest, The Barber Takes a Wife (TIME, Aug. 4), was breaking all Shanghai box-office records, giving every promise of being the biggest cinematic smash China had ever seen...
...Wilhelm went to live in a Paris suburb. One after another, his old friends dropped away. In 1935, he was sued together with a French actress for collecting money allegedly for the restoration of the "lost Ukrainian crown." Hastily he left Paris, went to Switzerland, thence back to Socialist Vienna...
...laid directly at the feet of Miss June Lockhart. She creates a young lady that every male member of the audience would like to meet even if she did not do a genicel strip-tease under the precarious shield of a large beach robe. Miss Lockhart is a compoient actress, but there is a persistent impression that her success resis largely on the suspicion that she herself in just the kind of young lady she portrays...
Several of the performances are first-rate. Canada Lee plays with dignity and fervor one of the few thoroughly unpatronizing screen roles ever given a Negro. Lilli Palmer is a sensitive and lovely actress. John Garfield, having dropped some of his Dead End mannerisms, gives a good performance that is as hard and simple as a rock...
...smacks of the studio. There is a beautiful stone house on a beautiful stretch of shore: it looks like a fine place to live in, but the principals who live there are not plausible enough to deserve the privilege. Once in a while Greer Garson demonstrates that a good actress is jailed inside all the suffocating wax that the studio has molded around her. Newcomer Richard Hart makes a cagey, personable deceiver. Robert Mitchum tries a Gallic gesture now & then but most of the time he just looks sleepy. No audience will blame him much for that...