Word: caste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Park Avenue Kitty Foyle. Arriving in the summer of 1935, she promptly had her named changed to Colby and was cast in Mary of Scotland. In the finished film, she scarcely appeared. After that she scarcely appeared in pictures like The Bride Walks Out, Wings of Mercy, Walking on Air, some Ginger Rogers films, a smattering of Bs. Anita had too many inhibitions to be adept at playing anyone except herself. After two and a half years of it she gave up, returned to New York -and became, for a time, a Park Avenue Kitty Foyle...
...ward, it seems) about cracking eggs, we must break quite a few to mix this week's omelet. The atmosphere is electric now that one doesn't know but what one's best friend may weaken and make plans for a wedding this February. All caution has been cast to the winds. The only safe way to enumerate the prospects is to gay that we know absolutely that "hermit" Dean Brooks and "leach" White are not planning anything. As for the rest, well--anything can happen...
Except for Saturday matinees in the neighborhood cinema circuit, the movie serial that reached its zenith of popularity with "The Perils of Pauline" has given way to series, unconnected in plot, but cast in the same mold: The Great Gildersleeve, Andy Hardy, Laurel and Hardy, Crime Doctor, Doctor Gillespie, Fibber McGeo and Molly. People find these entertaining, just as they like familiar Tchaikowsky and spurn Shostakovich, but no further contribution to a stagnating film-art can come from such mechanically-whipped froth. To use the vernacular, when you've seen one, you've seen...
...older sister Ruth-with a young overseas flyer. Suddenly the flyer (John Dall) turns up, all set to marry Ruth-who is all set to marry someone else. To soften the blow, Ruth (Virginia Gilmore) agrees to act out for a little the role that Miriam has cast her in. It starts off all innocent merriment, but winds up with more romance than Ruth had bargained...
...late summer drive from the Channel ports to the German border had been so rapid that the troops were forced to travel light. Extra clothing and blankets were cast aside. At the front, house-to-house fighting and barbed wire wore uniforms to tatters in less than a month. At one time, the need for more blankets was so great that they were collected from U.S. camps and shipped to the war fronts...