Word: cinemas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Born. To Charles Spencer ("Charlie") Chaplin, 59, longtime cinema comic, and fourth wife Oona O'Neill Chaplin, 23, daughter of Playwright Eugene O'Neill: their third child (his seventh, including the daughter of onetime protégée Joan Berry), second daughter; in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Josephine Anna. Weight...
State of the Cinema. For Boss Jack Warner, the triumph was edged with irony. It was no secret that Warner had allowed Johnny Belinda to be made only over his protests and that he had parted company with its director, Jean Negulesco, when the picture was finished. It was also well known that Warner had thoroughly disliked Treasure of the Sierra Madre, had held up its release and later parted company with Director Huston. At the presentation, Jack Warner had to listen to a pointed slight in Huston's acceptance speech: "If this [the Oscar] were hollow...
...Italian towns and villages last week workers attended "feasts of liberty." Fireworks and oratory popped triumphantly. Two thousand anti-Communist soapboxers, doorbell ringers and pamphlet carriers crowded into Rome's shiny, modern Cinema Metropolitan, hoarsely chanting the name of Luigi Gedda. Finally, a brawny, firm-jawed man rose from his seat in the first row and brusquely acknowledged the cheers. He was the chief strategist of Italy's Catholic Action movement; he had just led his followers to a notable victory...
...life-in-depth. The lovers' moments of clandestine passion (as frank as any that have recently reached the screen), their childish gaiety, their anguish and fears have an almost unbearable intimacy. Sensitively conceived and superbly acted-notably by Micheline Presle and Gérard Philipe-Devil makes most cinema explorations of the human heart appear strictly two-dimensional...
...superior acting. It is not, however, precisely what the Kenmore management would have you believe a New York critic called it--"The best Italian film to reach this country." It can not stand up to "Open City" or "To Live in Peace," for example, as consistently successful cinema art. Still, there are some very fine moments of melodrama in "Tragic Hunt," that rate it well with the earlier films and make its director and co-author, Giuseppe De Santis, a promising new figure in his field...