Word: carmichael
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Have and Have Not" has little to offer beyond the scope of "Casablanca" except for two memorable characterizations in minor roles. Walter Brennan outrummies W. C. Fields in a sympathetic portrayal of lovingly barflied Eddie,, and Hoagy Carmichael "plays it again" with more stuff than Dooley "Sam" Wilson...
...Have Not (Warner), having jettisoned a solid 90% of the Ernest Hemingway novel, for which Warner Bros, paid plenty, may make devotees of Hemingway the sourest boycotters since Carrie Nation.* But the sea change which Producer-Director Howard Hawks supervised-for the benefit of Humphrey Bogart, Hoagy (Star Dust) Carmichael, and a sensational newcomer named Lauren Bacall (rhymes with McCall)-results in the kind of tinny romantic melodrama which millions of cinemaddicts have been waiting forever since Casablanca (TIME...
...forgotten about-the kind in which the derelict sweethearts are superficially aloof but essentially hot as blazes, and seem to do even their kissing out of the corners of their mouths. This particular romance is decorated by some sinister yet friendly bits of low-life café atmosphere. Hoagy Carmichael's performance as a cokey-looking ivory-prowler is especially useful for some spidery Caribbean jazz, and for two wryly elegant Carmichael songs. But the most valuable fixture in the show is 20-year-old Lauren Bacall...
Ever since he led a squadron of unarmed Flying Fortresses into Hawaii early in the morning of Dec. 7, 1941, a 6 ft. Texan named Richard Carmichael has been in the middle of the war. In Australia his squadron joined the famed 19th Group which made its way out of the Philippines and Java. During the lean days of 1942 Carmichael made many a daring bombing mission over Lae, Salamaua, Rabaul, won the DSC, DFC, Silver Star. As a lieutenant colonel he took command of the 19th...
...Forces General "Hap" Arnold made Dick Carmichael his executive assistant, sent him on inspection trips. When the time came to pick men for the Twentieth Air Force-the Superfortress command-Carmichael was given one of the first groups. He flew every B-29 mission until Aug. 20. That day four B-29s were shot down over Japan. The pilot of one of them, listed last week as "missing," was Colonel Richard Carmichael...