Word: cinemas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week was the Treasury's list of top salaries* paid in 1939. As usual, cinema stars endorsed some of the fattest pay checks. The biggest ten: 1) Gary Cooper (Samuel Goldwyn and Paramount Pictures...
...YOUR CINEMA DEPARTMENT OF JULY 7, YOU OMITTED, IT SEEMS TO ME, SOME OF THE MOST FASCINATING FACTS IN THE LIFE AND CAREER OF MY FRIEND BOB HOPE. YOU NEGLECTED TO MENTION THE 20 YEARS HE SPENT IN ALCATRAZ FOR KICKING LITTLE CHILDREN AND BEATING DOGS. IT'S NOT VERY OFTEN I GET MAD, BUT TO SPEAK OF THE "APPEALING AVARICE" OF HOPE, THE ONE MAN IN THE BUSINESS WHO DOES NOT DESERVE SUCH SNIDE REPORTING, IS FANTASTIC. I'M GLAD TO BE INTERVIEWED ANY TIME ABOUT ANY OF MY FRIENDS AND PARTICULARLY WHEN...
...weighing 275 but still looking mighty fit, made three stipulations before surrendering to Holly wood: 1) that Gary Cooper impersonate him; 2) that no oomphy (or any other kind of grunt) girl portray his wife; 3) that the picture be an honest account. Result: one of the cinema's most memorable screen biographies...
Gary Cooper, the cinema's epitome of a natural American, plays Alvin York to perfection. He has admirable assistance: Mother York (Margaret Wycherly), Pastor Rosier Pile (Walter Brennan), York's sweetheart Gracie Williams (Joan Leslie) and a first-rate supporting cast. The picture also manages to produce an almost documentary description of the meager, resourceful life of the South's mountain folk...
...Because 65% of the U.S. bolts its evening meal before 6:30, 90% before 7:30, movie-goers have plenty of time to sit through double features. They keep only 4% of the current U.S. cinemaudience out of the cinema. People are over whelmingly for them in towns showing double features, against them in single feature towns. In New York City, which has both, 63% of the movie-goers want double features. But many former cinemagoers no longer attend pictures because of them...