Word: cinemas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mise enscéne it beats the transatlantic voyage in the cinema's Foreign Correspondent...
Kitty Foyle (R. K. O. Radio). Nothing succeeds with the cinema's limitless female following like a good teary treatment of women's travails. So when Novelist Christopher Morley produced Kitty Foyle last year, he had a certain movie sale on his hands...
Night Train (20th Century-Fox). Dumpy British Director Alfred Hitchcock set a standard for mystery films with The 39 Steps and The Lady Vanishes which the U. S. cinema industry has never been able to touch. Night Train and Blackout (TIME, Nov. 25) show that Hitchcock's departure for Hollywood before World War II failed to deprive the British cinema of its special bent for prolonging a nerve-racking state of suspense over an almost unbearable period of time...
Little Men (R. K. O. Radio, is the third cinema which harum-scarum Scenarists Gene Towne and Graham Baker have put out on their own. A "streamlined film version" of Louisa May Alcott's novel about life at the Plumfield Farm Boarding School in the late 19th Century, the Polly -androus story would hardly be recognized by Louisa May. Most intrusive revision: the addition of a pair of slick sharpers called Major Burdle (George Bancroft) and Willie the Fox (Jack Oakie). A period piece as heavy as a Victorian sideboard, the picture is lit up, as by an occasional...
Betty Field is still called a newcomer by Hollywood commentators. That is because she has been there less than two years. Yet in terms of cinema success, she is a hoary veteran; she scored a hit in Of Mice and Men a year ago. What makes Betty obscure is her preoccupation with her work. Unlike most cinemactresses of 22, Betty has a theatrical background, and she takes her acting seriously. Between scenes, she sits quietly in a corner or retreats to her dressing room to study French and Spanish...