Word: cinemas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fate can be as capriciously cruel to the movies as to any other business. The race to get Shaw's plays on film began with the handicap of the author's life expectancy. Then Miss Hiller, one of the cinema's few sensitive and commanding actresses and Shaw's favorite leading lady, fell prey to long, grave illness...
...everything but grind the camera in this second authorized full-length screen version of one of his plays. He wrote its scenario and dialogue, brought the 36-year-old drama up to date with some 30 new scenes, supervised its direction, dominated its production. The result is a cinema treat...
...future statutes will be humane but firm. The intention is simply to put [Jews] in a position where they can no longer harm the country. They will be removed from every job where they have a hand on the lever of any French activity -banks, industry, commerce, press, radio, cinema, publishing and the theater, as well as public administration...
...film factories have had not less than 40 feature pictures shooting, 60 in the process of editing every week. Their backlog of completed films has mounted to more than 85 pictures. This is a new high for sustained production in Hollywood. Big reason: on Sept. 1, five of the cinema industry's major studios (Warner Bros., Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 20th Century-Fox, Paramount, RKO-Radio) will begin distributing their product according to the terms of the Government's Consent Decree, which they signed last October (TIME...
Although Hollywood knew that it had o have a full stock of samples on hand for fall delivery, it could not foresee what he revolution might do to the cinema industry. Accustomed to selling a year's product sight unseen on the strength of a few high-powered productions, extravagant promises, big names, and a barrage of adjectives, it was faced with the vagaries of competitive sales. Now pictures vill largely have to be sold on merit. A studio with the capacity for making good pictures may clean up if its competitors try to peddle poor ones...