Word: cecile
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Crusades (Paramount), produced in 1935 by Cecil B. DeMille, has been reissued on two pretexts: that war has come again to the Holy Land; that an Oscar has just come to Loretta Young, the picture's star. Neither excuse is necessary. The film just about attains the DeMillen-nium of screen spectacles and is worth a second look...
Judges for the contest include Cecil B. Atwater, photographer and lecturer on Mexico, and Leigh Hoadley, Professor of Zoology and Master of Leverett House...
While we were there, we visited and talked with South Africa's and the democratic world's elder statesman, Field Marshal and Prime Minister Jan Christian Smuts. We took tea with him at Groote Schurr, an official residence built by Cecil Rhodes, and afterwards, the subject of Czechoslovakia's black Wednesday, which had just occurred, inevitably arose. Asked for his opinion, the Field Marshal spoke informally for about 15 minutes, and it gradually became clear to us that we were listening to an eloquent and illuminating account of the world situation today. Here are some excerpts from...
...moment later a curling snake began to take form on the WAAF. Tattooist Bell, intent on the job, paused to examine his canvas. "You've had a boil or something here," he said. "That's where my wife bit me," said Cecil Lambert. "He rammed that hussy in my mouth," said Mrs. Lambert. "Well, say goodbye to her now," said Charlie as he drew his needle over the WAAF's head...
Hollywood had been providing almost three-fourths of Britain's annual film supply. Last week, after the London premiere of Cecil B. DeMille's The Unconquered, there were less than ten more U.S. pictures awaiting release in Britain. "From here in," said one exhibitor, "it's getting a bit sticky." So far, British exhibitors had been able to fill their bills with reissues and vaudeville acts (Danny Kaye was the doubletalk of London), but reissues were already drawing catcalls from the customers, and few British movie palaces are equipped for vaudeville...