Word: bonita
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Across the shell-pocked Sangro battlefield (TIME, Dec. 13), Eighth Army veterans saw a dusky-eyed young woman running, heard her sob: "Stop, stop, oh please stop!" Her story: She was Bonita Caputi, American wife of an Italian officer missing in action. A refugee from Nazi terror, she and her baby daughter had lived with villagers in a cave dug in the Sangro no man's land, had survived eight days & nights of shelling and bombing...
...babies. They are, in fact, the second generation from such World War I monstrosities as The Kaiser-the beast of Berlin. And their infantile crudeness is the essence of their appeal. Hitler's Children (TIME, Jan. 18) features de luxe penny-arcade thrills like the threatened sterilization of Bonita Granville as a creature "unfit to be a Nazi mother." The climax of Behind the Rising Sun is a fight between a Japanese wrestler and a U.S. boxer which epitomizes in terms of the rawest violence the popular notion of the difference between the two nations...
...Beacon Hill mother. Her knight in armor, Paul Henreid, keeps right up with her, however, adding a Continental touch to the picture's portion of love-making. His double-cigarette lighting trick threatens to become as imitated and obnoxious as Veronica Lake's trademark. Claude Rains. Ilka Chase, and Bonita Granville fill in the supporting roles expertly...
...Although Bonita manages to introduce her New Orleans mood music to Chicago, to marry a young man with a horn (Jackie Cooper) and follow him through to the triumph of the modern dance band, story and music never get together. There is too much history to be got over. Furthermore, Miss Granville neither looks nor acts like a hot pianist...
...blues songs "about broken lives and broken dreams"-the Negroes' "trouble music." That meant New Orleans' famed Basin Street and its U.S. equivalent of jungle music. The picture begins in Basin Street in 1907 with the removal to Chicago of Adolphe Menjou, his piano-playing daughter (Bonita Granville) and her blues-singing mammy (Jessie Grayson...