Word: blandish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jolla pays its top stars an Equity minimum wage (lesser names get their regular price), sticks to a modest budget and limits itself to one set per production. But sometimes Hollywood will out. When Jennifer Jones starred last season in Serena Blandish, Angel Selznick insisted on surrounding his favorite actress (later to become his wife) with a cast that included Cinemactor Louis Jourdan and such polished stage veterans as Constance Collier, Mildred Natwick and Reginald Owen. He also insisted on gowns by Jacques Fath and five sets. The show drew capacity crowds throughout its run-and lost several thousand dollars...
Britain and the Continent 47. A British film, No Orchids for Miss Blandish, had London film critics in a tizzy over its portrayal of: 1. Wartime life in Britain...
...similar wardens of British taste hardly knew which way to look. After years of parapet-watching against the baser sort of Hollywood gangster movies, a gangster film popped into town that was really sending British eyebrows up. What hurt like a slug in the back: No Orchids for Miss Blandish was British-made...
...dialogue tried to catch the tone faithfully. Samples from the movie: "Look, Fenner, don't put the squeak into Slim." "Ya, I'd like to plug him in the guts." Most of the sequences involved fairly normal business like gun battles, kidnapings, dopings, and Miss Blandish's suicide. But there was one scene (where Miss Blandish's fiance is being kicked to death just out of camera sight) that brought gasps from London audiences...
...Soviet Government has been very reluctant to let its citizens travel outside Russia. Since the Revolution, few Russians have been exposed to the seductions of capitalism. But last week, with Red armies overrunning Rumania, Bulgaria and entering Hungary, more Russians than ever before were face to face with the blandish ments of the other, world...