Word: cinemaestro
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Dates: during 1943-1943
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...Front in North Africa (U.S. Signal Corps-Warner) might be more appropriately titled "Darryl Zanuck's War." A Technicolor panorama of the early stages of the North African invasion, it was filmed by 42 Signal Corps photographers under Cinemaestro Zanuck's personal direction. It has all the Zanuck fingerprints: it is flamboyant, melodramatic, sometimes corny, sometimes hysterical-but never dull. A pretty picture, it never approaches the unvarnished realism of the best Nazi or Soviet war films...
...past eight weeks San Francisco has been lapping up a double-scoop, 15-act vaudeville show called Highlights of 1943. Its title is much the most up-to-date thing about it. Produced by Hollywood's fabulous cinemaestro, Sid Grauman, it offers, with crafty candor, the kind of variety show that was pulling them when Grauman left San Francisco 27 years ago. Headlined by Songstress Gertrude Niesen singing a batch of old songs, Highlights includes a trained-poodle act, harmonica players, highflying female aerialists, an impersonator, an oldtime clown, a Gay Nineties troupe, a ping-pong exhibition...
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