Word: angeles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lost Angel (M.G.M.) has for a month been fluttering shyly around the sticks because M.G.M. lacked confidence in its box-office aerodynamism. Reasons: the picture's lack of marquee names, the originality of its story. Lost Angel is a remarkably touching, tragicomic treatment of one of the world's sure-fire themes: the Misunderstood Child...
Based on an idea of Dance-Mime Angna Enters', Lost Angel is a fable about a foundling who is adopted by a platoon of psychologists, given the name of Alpha, and crammed to the scalp with Chinese, sociology, polysyllables, pure reason. At six, Alpha runs into a sentimental newshawk who is appalled when she says, of his sheet, "Reactionary, isn't it?" He is shocked when he finds she knows no fairy tales, has no childish belief in magic. On a tour of Manhattan he shows her magic in a sandwich man whose shirt front lights...
Lifeboat (Tallulah Bankhead, William Bendix, John Hodiak, Henry Hull, Walter Slezak, Canada Lee, Mary Anderson, Hume Cronyn, Heather Angel; TIME...
...only the gentle radio operator (Hume Cronyn) has any doubt. As the trembling boy holds them at bay with his water-soaked pistol, the Negro disarms him. They debate whether or not to kill him. Tallulah Bankhead recalls the man the German captain drowned and a young mother (Heather Angel) who was pulled aboard the lifeboat, later jumped over board after her dead baby. When Lifeboat ends, they are still debating, like the world, what to do with the German...
...Holmes novels, Elsie Venner, The Guardian Angel and A Mortal Antipathy, seem morbid, sententious, very unlike his other writings. All three deal with characters on the borderline of insanity. Contemporary critics called them "medicated novels." This description is favorably endorsed by Clarence P. Oberndorf of Columbia University, past president of the American Psychoanalytic Association. In The Psychiatric Novels of Oliver Wendell Holmes (Columbia University Press; $3) he finds clear evidence that Holmes was 100 years ahead of his time...