Word: celluloids
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This is the world that J. Arthur Rank has put down in celluloid for us, and we would be losing far more than we would gain by suppressing it. Those who wanted to prevent Fagin from appearing on the American screen should go see him as he instructs his band of youthful thieves in the art of cutting purses. They might not find the old man so bad after...
...Born Yesterday" has been born in celluloid, with a silver spoon in its mouth. First of all, it's a faithful version of Garson Kanin's play, almost line for line. It has an excellent cast, one which for a change, seems to understand words. And it has Judy Holiday, who played Billie Dawn for years on Broadway. Miss Holliday alone would be enough...
...absolute homelessness. This was rather like reproaching a man who had lost both arms with not having lost both legs as well. For several years, Wells lived in an exhausting state of penury, lunching off a roll of bread, attending science school with only one battered collar (made of celluloid and washed every night) between him and ignominy. All that sustained him, and continued to do so until his last, embittered years, was the passionate belief that knowledge alone could save mankind, and that consequently "the final decision as to the fate of life on our planet depends today upon...
...Horseshoe, Chief Junaluska [of the Cherokees] had saved the life of Andrew Jackson by driving his tomahawk into the skull of a Creek warrior who had Jackson at his mercy. When Andrew Jackson became President ... he repaid this debt by ordering the Cherokee removal. So you see that even celluloid cliches have their counterpart in real life...
...taken Tennessee William's comedy and faithfully translated it into celluloid. Marion Brando's screamingly funny performances on Broadway is here duplicated by the antics of Kirk Douglas; and Jane Wyman, as William's limping heroine, gets her own share of laughs. Gertrude Lawrence's characterization of a fading southern belle however, while funny, cannot come up to the standard set by Douglas. "The Admiral was a Lady," with this at Boston's Metropolitan Theatre is nearly as good...