Word: cinemas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cinema screen and I likes him." Of President Truman most Britons knew nothing. "But he must have something in him," some of them said, "or he wouldn't have satisfied Roosevelt...
Orson Welles, 29, boy prodigy of theater, radio and cinema, took on a prodigious job: recording the entire Bible. Reading 15 minutes a day for a year, he expects to put the 773,746 words of a "slightly rewritten" King James Version on Decca records. He has already finished the Song of Solomon...
Shirley Temple, nearly 17, officially began the romantic phase of a cinema career which has been minutely publicized since childhood. Her announcement of her engagement to blond, 6 ft. 2 in. A.A.F. Sergeant John George Agar, 24, was closely followed by a parenthetical announcement from her parents: "Shirley and John have promised . . . not... to get married for two years, possibly three...
...Enchanted Cottage (RKO-Radio) is cinema's second successful production of Sir Arthur Wing Pinero's famous play about a fine young man (Robert Young) made ugly by the war, a slavey (Dorothy McGuire) who was born ugly, and a blind musician (Herbert Marshall) who helped instruct them in the vision of the heart. To each other, the young man and the slavey become as beautiful as makeup artists can manage. Helping out with the spiritual atmosphere, there is also a housekeeper named Mrs. Minett (Mildred Natwick) who is gifted with second sight (a high wind makes...
...reconstructed studios of Paris, he remarked that in America, "they go to the theatre to see people, not ideas." "Mr. Emmanuel," an expert British film of German atrocity, pays primary attention to people but gives ideas more than the passing nod that one generally finds in the art-starved cinema of the United States...