Word: casts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...being concluded for the beginning of the regular seminars on Monday when the building will be opened for regular use. The first floor of the building contains the administrative offices and the large auditorium and lecture room in the west wing, while library and reading rooms are in the cast wing...
...American Way (by George S. Kaufman & Moss Hart). After getting almost as much ballyhoo as a World's Fair, Kaufman & Hart's monster "spectacle" opened last week with a cast of 250. Against the animated background of an Ohio town, it tells the life-story of Martin and Irma Gunther (Fredric March and Florence Eldridge) from their arrival as immigrants, through joys and sorrows, poverty and wealth, until Martin is killed by a Nazi Bund while trying to prevent his grandson from joining...
Though They Made Me a Criminal is little better than a narrative stencil, Di rector Busby Berkeley and his cast gave the picture enough vigor, detail and pace to make it first-rate entertainment. Good sequence : Johnnie and the Dead End kids going swimming in an irrigation tank, and getting trapped when the owner starts let ting out the water...
...next two. He dashed off Mosquitoes, was halfway through his third novel, Sartoris, when something happened. He was writing about his own country when suddenly "I discovered that writing was a mighty fine thing," he says; it enabled you "to make men stand on their hind legs and cast a shadow." Sartoris was rejected...
...have overlooked "Grand Illusion," "The Citadel" fully deserves the honors it has won. Based on Dr. A. J. Cronin's popular novel, this story of a young doctor fighting for his ideals in a money-mad world loses none of its effectiveness on the screen. For once Hollywood has cast aside its grandiose ideas of lavish staging effects and breath-taking landscape panoramas to present a simple and convincing portrait of medical life. Particularly effective are the scenes in the Welsh coal mines and rustic country clinics. Robert Donat and Rosalind Russell head a fine cast, among whom Ralph Richardson...