Word: cinemas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Right now seems to be the open season on fantasy at least as far as the cinema is concerned. One of the more minor entries in the life after death derby is "The Cockeyed Miracle," into which somebody lured Keenan Wynn and Frank Mergan. The supposedly whimsical situations that were only mildly funny back in the days of "Topper" are beginning to age just a bit. No longer is unchecked mirth provoked by the familiar business of having characters invisible to their fellows on the screen, yet conveniently apparent to the audience, walking through walls and evening thunderstorms. All this...
Married. Van Johnson, 31, chubby, pink-haired cinema Dream Boy of U.S. bobby-soxers, and Eve Abbott Wynn, 30, onetime stage actress; he for the first time, she for the second; four hours after she divorced Comedian Keenan Wynn, Johnson's best friend; in Juarez, Mexico...
This prodigious and sorrowing descent is longer and more repetitious than most moviegoers will stand for; yet some will see in the iteration one of cinema's two-extraordinary attempts to create a massive,, heroic dirge...
...shine all the time in Cambridge and the Square may not match Hollywood and Vine, but cinema magnates after a short visit this weekend have their eye on the Yard for a "location" rendition of Helen Howe's "We Happy...
...dress well the men had only to listen to Hollywood's Adolphe Menjou, fashion plate since the days of the silent cinema. He offered instructions. Among them: let the jacket sleeves be narrow, and the shirt cuff showing; never wear a striped shirt with a striped suit; wear suspenders instead of a belt; let the knot of the tie be loose instead of tight; let the trousers break just over the instep; stay away from jewelry. "The well-dressed man," certified the famously high-styled actor, "is never conspicuous...