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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...popular entertainments and most colossal money-makers ever produced. It wanted to see the new superproduction, the Gone With the Wind with hair on its chest and ideology in its hair. It wanted to see precisely for whom, in Paramount's endlessly considered and fabulously invested opinion, The Bell did, or did not, toll...
...turned out, the tremendous Bell, upon whose casting Paramount had spent three years and nearly three million dollars, tolled for nobody in particular, and tolled off key at that...
Feat and Defeat. There was fine stuff in it, in great ill-digested, nervous chunks. But For Whom the Bell Tolls was not, by the kindest stretching of critical standards, a good picture. Nor was it reliable entertainment. Nor was the likelihood that it would pay its way more than a string of subjunctives.* It was, on a grand scale, a defeat of Hollywood by Hollywood. Censorship defeated it, and timidity; heavy investment defeated it, and pretentiousness; the very expectation of the public defeated it; and the desperate, driven, split, muddled desire to make a great picture and a great...
...most likely to salvage the picture was also the best artist in the company, and the most simply attentive to an artist's job. Whoever else may have fumbled at the rope or muffled the clapper, the 27-year-old Swedish actress, Ingrid Bergman, hit the Bell such a valiant and far-sounding clang that there had been nothing like it since her great compatriot Greta Garbo enchanted half the world...
Victor Fleming, who directed her in Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, calls her Angel. Sam Wood calls her "a fine wholesome girl," and gracefully credits her and Cooper with the excellent morale of the whole outfit during difficulties on The Bell's location. Deafening Gregory Ratoff shouts: "Haffing diracted Meese Boergmann in her foerst two Amerrican peetures, I vould say puzzitiffly I hope I do de same tvanty-two timeps more. She is sansahtional...