Word: cinemas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Holiday Inn (Paramount). This first cinema conjunction of Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire is a box-office bargain-an effervescent musical, spiced with 13 pleasant Irving Berlin melodies. It is whipped into expert froth by Producer-Director Mark Sandrich, maker of most of the Astaire-Rogers musicals...
...greatest admirers, Harvard's Professor Robert D. Feild (author of The Art of Walt Disney), was dropped by Harvard's conservative art department because of too much enthusiasm for modern art, particularly Disney's. But Disney is by all odds the most successful cinema educator to date. Says FORTUNE: "Previous educational movies, with such rare exceptions as the MARCH OF TIME and Pare Lorentz films, have been dull as dishwater and often embarrassingly coy in the bargain. Disney's are not only enlightening but exciting...
Died. James Cruze, 58, longtime cinedirector (Old Ironsides, The Covered Wagon, Merton of the Movies) of a heart ailment; in Hollywood. Born James Cruze Bosen, one of 23 children of Mormon parents, in Ogden, Utah, he was an actor in cinema's early days, became one of the highest-paid and fastest-working directors of the silents. At one time Paramount paid him $1,000 a day every day in the year whether he worked or not. The second of his three wives was Actress Betty Compson...
...that more women go to the movies than men. Many a picture has been made on this supposition- angling for a female trade often estimated at 70% of all tickets purchased. After a rigorous two-year investigation, Pollster George Gallup's Audience Research Institute (devoted exclusively to making cinema surveys for RKO-Radio and other moviemakers) has published some surprising statistics...
...When mixed couples go to the cinema, the woman selects the picture more often than the man. But men go alone "much" more often than women. Result: the men choose the picture 51% of the time...