Word: cinemas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cinemoralist Will Hays decided an expunging job was in order on Noel Coward's cinebiography of a British destroyer, In Which We Serve-a show London has been enjoying unexpunged for ten weeks now. Producers of the cinema cried protest; both sides were reported marshaling their attorneys for a moral war. In the film are some...
Aside from the personal performances on which the movie relies, the plot is entirely able to stand alone. The individual situations, from Hepburn cheesecake (another cinema rarity) to the final all-out love scene, are well-written, perfectly handled. But the best plot in Hollywood wouldn't be able to stand up under the beating of these two personalities. The picture is theirs, and they make it the scintillating show that stems from the first class retreat of a definitely first class...
...veteran character actress; of a kidney ailment; in Manhattan. She spent most of her life playing the parts of bird-minded flibbertigibbets. She had a thwacking success in one serious role: the pathologically possessive mother in Sidney Howard's The Silver Cord. When sound came to the cinema she went to Hollywood, was flibberti-gibbety Aunt Pittypat in Gone With the Wind. As one of the solicitous old poisoners in Arsenic and Old Lace she played her last part; she was the fourth famed character actress to die in five weeks (the others: Dame Marie Tempest, May Robson, Edna...
...moved to Los Angeles, Joan signed for three years on the Pantages vaudeville circuit. Her partner (in a vaudeville act of unalloyed corn) was Si Wills, who soon became her husband. Quitting the road in 1936, Wills & Davis settled in Hollywood. In the next six years Joan graduated from cinema bit parts to featured parts...
First-Class Business. This windfall comes smack atop the biggest year in U.S. cinema history. The stampede to spend new-found cash and forget the war with Mickey Rooney or Hedy Lamarr has shoved movie attendance to almost 100,000,000 weekly, 15% above last year. Around war plants the flickers play to standees at every show, theater walls fairly bulge with ogling patrons. Result: total box-office take of 16,500 U.S. cinemansions this year will hit a record $1.3 billion-20% above the peak year...