Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...deal was as timely as it was big; Selznick's studio and releasing organization were at a standstill. He was planning a European junket to get his fingers into a couple of British film productions. Insiders said that he was just waiting until his heavy investment came rolling back from his latest, long-delayed production, Portrait of Jennie. Meanwhile, though he lacks the kind of ready cash that he needs to make his kind of picture (Gone With the Wind, Duel in the Sun), he would have some pocket money...
Down to the Sea is no great picture, but it is tight enough at the seams to be seaworthy. Its big moments-notably the harpooning and the ship's tangle with an iceberg in the fog-have a fast-moving drive and conviction. Despite an occasional whiff of the studio, they have a real sea smell...
...some reason, Charley Gray became mildly irritated. "The little woman kissing her husband good-by," he mocked. "Everything depends on this moment. He must get the big job or Junior can't go to boarding school. And what about the payments on the new car? Goodby, darling, and don't come back to me without being vice president of the trust company...
...Point of No Return (Marquand says, "I take a dim view of all serious critics-I don't know any who've had a kind word to say for me, ever since I was a little boy"), it is a sure bet that the U.S.'s big Marquand audience will...
When he tired of writing slicks exclusively and turned to "serious" novels, his first one, The Late George Apley, got him the 1938 Pulitzer Prize, critical acclaim and a big, new reading public. Proceeds from the Apley play and movie settled him even more firmly on Easy Street, and since 1944 his B-O-M job (a part-time reading chore) has brought him another $20,000 a year. Practical, a lover of comfort and the good things of life (including, among others, three cars, two Scotches before dinner), Marquand is by no means contemptuous of money and is mightily...