Word: caste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...laud any single actor in this film is to do an injustice to a cast which is thoroughly superb, down to the smallest realistic bit-part. In contrast to the thousands of feet of escapism and trite propaganda that roll daily from the cameras of Hollywood, "The Stars Look Down" is an, effective reminder that the move can be a force for both education...
Five months ago in similar circumstances Orson Welles did a bad imitation of the majestic Barrymore tremolo and snorts. This time Mack called for another Barrymore. From the 'M.G.M. lot came Brother Lionel in time for a quick run-through with the cast. As the show opened, Vallee announced: "Tonight . . . Lionel Barrymore is John Barrymore. Greetings, Lionel." Cadenced Brother Barrymore in reply: "Just call me John, Rudy...
...attitudes in their press ranging from the socially radical Catholic Worker, to the liberal Commonweal, to the Brooklyn Tablet, and Father Coughlin's quasi-fascist Social Justice (the last two called by the Florida Catholic "the Brooklyn-Royal Oak Axis"). They point also to the pro-Roosevelt cast of such leading diocesan papers as the Chicago New World, the San Francisco Monitor, the Pittsburgh Catholic. But the influential Catholic newspaper-the Brooklyn Tablet-and the two most influential magazines-America, the Catholic World -are still isolationist. Commonweal (most widely read by non-Catholics) supported aid-to-Britain until...
Heaven is a happy joining of an honest, gusty book, a corking good script (Casey Robinson), slick production (Robert Lord) and direction (Irving Rapper), with a big and superior cast. It also has the one essential ingredient it had to have: the right man to play Pastor Spence. Backed up by the superbly restrained performance of delicate, big-eyed Martha Scott, Fredric March poses, postures, struts his Shakespearean dignity to his heart's sweet content. It is a first-rate job-possibly because in many a good minister there is a forgivable touch of theatrics...
...principal members of the cast are old hands at their game: most of them were seen last year in "Rose Marie," and have simply shifted from a surrounding of Canadian Mounties to one of Texas Rangers. Nancy McCord is still the best, with a voice and personality that merit better use: Alexander Gray is still too short, but adequate; and Rope Emerson is still the biggest woman we have ever seen on the stage, and quite humorous when she throws her weight around or beats a poor little piano to death. Add one very funny swivel hipped, unjointed dancer named...