Word: caste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Artist Christy had finished his mighty acreage of oil painting it was propped up in the Capitol's rotunda for 16 months while a legislative commission cast about for a likely place to hang it. Likeliest places in the Capitol were already occupied by such rival historical scenes as The Battle of Chapultepec and Westward the Course of Empire Takes its Way. One Capitol picture, however, Carpenter's dignified First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation, failed to fill its wall space. So the commission decided to cart it off to the old Supreme Court chamber and replace...
...first time out, Freedom's People undertook to reveal the origins of Negro spirituals, ballads and blues, demonstrate their influence on American music. Paced by towering Paul Robeson, who sang Many Thousands Gone and Swing Low, Sweet Chariot, the cast included famed Ballad Singer Joshua White, Jazzman Noble Sissle & orchestra, Blues Composer W. C. Handy. The show did right by Negro music and its development. In the future it also intends to do right by Negro science, literature, sport, religion. Scheduled to go on the air about once a month for the next half-year Freedom's People...
Dawn's three principals are so perfectly cast that they seem to have been especially equipped to play their roles. Miss de Havilland's performance and some of the film's minor business are artfully done. If Director Mitchell Leisen and Producer Arthur Hornblow Jr. had been content to strip the picture of its elaborate frills (e.g., a prolonged cops-&-robbers chase, a native festival) and tell it simply, it might have been Grade...
...Benny spends the evening trying to get into the amorous clutches of his pals' financees and out of the amorous clutches of sundry bewhiskered males. Kay Francis as the real aunt shows up just in time to catch Benny on the rebound. She and the remainder of the supporting cast are all excellent with Arlean Wheland in the romancing lead taking a big step from starlet toward star...
...more suited to the role. Sans Rochester, sans his usual gags, Benny with much enthusiasm and little natural ability does an acceptable job. But he personally, has been funnier in other pictures; and, funny as "Charley's Aunt" is, it has been more hilariously produced with a less pretentious cast...