Word: cinemas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...find out how well seduction had worked, they sampled public opinion by flashing the faces of various notables on cinema screens. A cinema audience at Blood and Sand was startled when the comely faces of Tyrone Power and Rita Hayworth were snatched off the screen and a portrait of the late great Dr. Sun Yat-sen appeared. After a bewildered moment, the audience applauded. When the face of Chiang Kai-shek appeared, the Chinese went wild with joy. Next, Puppet Wang. No go. Boos and hisses...
...Struther, author of the best-selling Mrs. Miniver (whose cinema version broke all records last week by starting its seventh week at Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall), received word that her husband, Lieut. Anthony Maxtone-Graham of the British army, had been captured in North Africa...
...despite these faults, dramatically Ambersons is a great motion picture, adult and demanding. Artistically, it is a textbook of advanced cinema technique. The novel use of sidelighting and exaggerated perspective that made Kane seem unlike any other movie floods Ambersons with the same revealing eloquence, examining faces, bathrooms, streets, the cluttered detail of the Ambersons' magnificence, from a viewpoint so fresh that it creates a visual suspense in the very act of clarification. Once the camera takes a 350-degree turn round the ballroom at George's home-for-the-holidays party, darting in to pick up revealing...
...rising young star in his first picture. The credits for the film begin by listing all the established stars, and then add at the end the by-now hallowed phrase, "and introducing Abuer Yokum." It was used when Deanna Durbin, Veronica Lake, and John Garfield were "introduced" to cinema audiences. If there's any good luck charm attached to tacking a new star's name on at the end, instead of at the beginning of his starting venture, it has proved its validity in Paramount's "introduction" of Alan Ladd in "This Gun For Hire...
Skater Sonja Henie lost an appeal from a ruling that she has to pay a promoter $77,658.28 plus 20% of her future cinema earnings. The promoter said she had agreed to the percentage in 1936 if he brought her to the U.S. and got her into the movies...