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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Virginia (Paramount). Produced by Virginia-born Director Edward H. Griffith,* from a story he wrote with Virginia Van Upp, Virginia was filmed on the spot, in torrid, somnolent Albemarle County, where Thomas Jefferson lived and died. In spite of the labored accents of its non-Confederate cast (only Southern actor featured in Virginia is Tom Rutherford, a Richmond blue blood) its lines have an authentic ring, might have been copied down verbatim from the resentful speeches of Albemarle's land-loving inhabitants...
...most of four-year-old Carolyn Lee. After Honeymoon in Bali (also with Carroll & MacMurray) Carolyn's steel executive father took her home to Martins Ferry, Ohio, was persuaded by Director Griffith to give her another whirl in pictures. But the real news in Virginia's cast is 24-year-old Stirling Hayden, who had never acted in anything before-not even a Sunday School pageant-when Director Griffith gave him his fat part in Virginia...
...dishonest poker game enough to keep an embezzling clerk from committing suicide. Though he let things slow down a bit too much in spots. Director Ben Hecht has here found the ideal substitute for standard boy meets girl second feature-a simple drama with simple characters, skillfully cast and superbly photographed...
Magnesium weighs 33% less than aluminum, 75% less than steel. As strong (in tensility) as the best cast iron, it can be used in airplane motors, crankcases, landing wheels, pontoons; the weight it saves can then be switched to gasoline or bomb load. It also has important military use in lightweight bomb casings and (because of the inflammability which once made it invaluable to photographers as flashlight powder) in parachute flares, incendiary bombs, tracer bullets. German production, according to Arnold, has jumped 500% since 1938 (to an estimated 25,000 tons last year...
General Jackson's opinions need surprise no one who has observed George Washing ton and Abraham Lincoln zealously follow ing the Communist Party Line in recent years. Washington, Franklin, Jefferson, John Marshall and Jesse James are also cast for bit parts in Trumbo's production. If the devil can quote Scripture, surely an irritated screenwriter can dip into The Federalist. A chapter of The Remarkable Andrew is devoted to the remarkable Dalton's attempt to outwit charges of Communism and pacifism with tedious parodies of Red-baiting...