Word: cinemas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Andy Johnson's story is a natural for the cinema. An illiterate, runaway tailor's apprentice, Andy (Van Heflin) arrives in Greeneville, Tenn. with shackles on his ankles, has them chopped off by the village blacksmith, sets up a tailor shop, is taught to read and write by the young village librarian (Ruth Hussey), who becomes his wife. Under her guidance Andy is elected sheriff, Governor, Senator, Vice President...
...Ethel Waters show at Manhattan's Cotton Club. She was put in big time by a spell at Hollywood's Little Troc cabaret. Her first film appearance, a sequence in Panama Hattie, proved the high point of a dull show. She continued as Georgia Brown in the cinema version of Broadway's Cabin in the Sky, and is scheduled for M.G.M.'s Meet the People...
...Which We Serve (Two Cities-British Lion; United Artists) is the first really great picture of World War II. Less epic than All Quiet on the Western Front, the cinema's classic on World War I, In Which is more moving. It is the story of a British destroyer, from her launching in 1939 to her sinking off Crete in 1941. So real is her story and that of the men who sailed in her that when the film was first shown in London, tears poured down the cheeks of bluejackets and hardened critics...
Clarke would take his wife to the cinema and walk home in the blackout by the Laytons Black Path. There Clarke would bend down to tie his shoelace. Swales was to beat Mrs. Clarke on the head...
...those aspects of human relations that usually lurk in literary backgrounds but rarely appear boldly as the central theme of a story. At times a bit maudlin, the English novelist has avoided stereotyped sentimentalities in "The Moon and Sixpence," and Warner's has followed faithfully with a moving cinema rendition of the tale of simmering desires and explosive emotional escapes...