Word: cinemas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Better known as cinema's "beautiful hunk...
Lauren Bacall, newest of sultry cinema sirens (To Have and Have Not), arrived in Manhattan for a well-timed "rest," topped the tabloids with a well pressagented romance. Her leading man, Cinema Tough Guy Humphrey Bogart, happened to be staying at the Hotel Gotham, where she put up. To swarming newsmen, she confided: "Bogey is a real swell guy. We have a lot of fun together. . . ." Bogart, currently separated from his wife, Mayo ("Sluggy") Methot, got in character to pronounce his opinion of Lauren: "Baby's . . . a real Joe." Bogey and Baby have just completed their second picture...
Then, early last year, everything happened at once. She sang at Town Hall; the Met rushed over with a contract. Hollywood's Gregory Ratoff began looking for what he called a touch of "class" for his cinema biography of Composer Ernest R. Ball; two weeks later, Thebom was in Hollywood singing Mother Machree and Dear Little Boy of Mine. The cameras caught her twice, briefly, but she added the necessary class to the movie called Irish Eyes Are Smiling...
...murders her, 3) marries and lives happily with the girl he loves. What is more, the man is presented so sympathetically that when at last, thanks to the guile of a police inspector and his own tortured conscience, he complies with the codes of society and cinema and returns to face the music, the average cinemaddict will feel very sorry indeed...
...bound producers, directors, and even $2,500-a-week writers wanted to become independent producers, too. The reasons were plain: 1) taxes had taken the meaning, and the lure, out of high salaries; 2) the booming war market had made it a near impossibility to lose money on any cinema, no matter how inept; 3) the discontented wanted more creative freedom than is offered by the major producers...