Word: cinemas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pretty, pudgy kid sister of Songstress Margaret Whiting. Agent Barren Polan found her in a Hollywood record shop, where she was heard asking for some "really sincere" recordings. "I looked," said Polan, "and it was a perfect Junior Miss." It was, indeed. Barbara played a supporting role in the cinema version of Junior Miss, has grown up into an accept able lead. She wallows in a bubblegumbo of teen-talk ("Johnny had on a suede coat that just wouldn't quit!"), is really sincere about her role. She longs to become "a great actress - I want...
...Cinema star John Carradine will be interviewed by the Crimson Network tonight as a special feature of WHRV. The transcribed program goes out on the air waves at 9 o'clock...
Married. Roland Young, 60, tweedy, henpecked satyr of prewar cinema (Topper, The Young in Heart); and Dorothy Patience May, 40, British divorcee; each for the second time; in Jersey City...
David Work Griffith, 73, wonder man of the early cinema, received an interviewer in his Hollywood hotel room and spoke frankly. "I thought I was a great genius," he recalled wryly. "That was a lot of baloney. . . . There has been no improvement in movies since the old days. . . . They have not improved in stories. I don't know that they've improved in anything. What the modern movie lacks is beauty . . . they have forgotten movement in the moving picture-it's all still and stale...
Boston University made a nice distinction between radio and cinema arts: to 20th Century-Fox's Spyros P. Skouras and J. Arthur Rank's J. Arthur Rank went honorary doctorates of laws; to RCA's David Sarnoff an honorary doctorate of commercial science...