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...reporters had also never seen in action a Russian quite so engaging as Jacob M. Lomakin, ex-Tassman, now consul general in New York City. A near-facsimile of cinemanful James Cagney, ebullient Consul Lomakin had no battery of deadpan advisers; behind him at each session sat a pert and pretty Russian blonde. Unlike icily aloof Andrei Gromyko, Lomakin chatted easily with those near him. He called the other delegates "fellow experts," and he uttered such un-Soviet statements as "We don't need to be consulting Moscow all the time," and "I will go along with what...
...almost a decade, uses his know-how as a documentary-maker to put realistic punch into his entertainment. Rue Madeleine begins with well-chosen scraps of newsreel, a commentator's voice, recognizable glimpses of actual Washington streets and buildings. By the time they are introduced, the actors (James Cagney, Annabella, Richard Conte. Frank Latimore) have already half won their make-believe battle. Concentrating on the fascinating business of learning how to be a spy, the movie wisely ignores phony romantic trimmings...
...Cagney is as tough and unlovable a little spy-instructor as he was a public enemy. Annabella is as pretty as any female agent need be, but she parachutes into occupied France, goes briskly about her hazardous work and never once bats an eyelash at either Nazi or Ally. All the French streets and London buildings in Rue Madeleine were photographed in Quebec and New England. Now that studio technicians have learned how to reproduce everything from the Gare du Nord to the Himalayas right in Hollywood,* Producer de Rochemont is plugging for the revolutionary theory that everything-rooms, street...
Among the 275 guests were Canadian-born Mary Pickford, Walter Pidgeon, Alexander Knox, Jack Carson; British-born Greer Garson, Gary Grant, Ronald Colman; such friendly neighbors as Margaret O'Brien, Shirley Temple, Jimmy Cagney...
...capital-gains tax hole (and it may take an act of Congress), the harm will have been done-to the majors. The independents have learned how to make more money alone, by avoiding the tremendous overhead of big studio plants and top-heavy platoons of executives. Example: Actor James Cagney and his brother Bill have made as much on two independent pictures, even by paying corporation income taxes, as they made on six pictures at Warner Bros...