Word: cinemas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grateful townspeople solemnly burn the mortgage on the old Truesmith homestead and make plans to erect a suitable monument in the town square, Woodrow's misery seems to have reached its bearable limit. But it touches new depths when, in one of the most uproarious political campaigns in cinema history, the desperately reluctant Woodrow is nominated for Mayor...
...Skeffington" could well be titled "Mrs. Skeffington." The powerful theme that overshadows occasionally dull moments and makes the movie outstanding revolves around Fanny her intense pro-occupation with personal beauty, blotting out her true nature even to herself. The desperate struggle to carry beauty into old age is touching cinema, get in an early twentieth-century atmosphere with a compelling, heavy, suspenseful tone. The mood is tense, the effect like a fizzling fuse of dynamite...
...most effective when directed at waiters who neglect to have his food prepared without butter or his bacon fried to a sufficient crispness. He is also an accomplished journalist, and has been called the rich man's Ernie Pyle. Long a TIME writer, principally of Sport and Cinema, he is now a LIFE editor and war correspondent. Last week he published his second book exactly 22 days after the appearance of his first...
...studio handouts, "is today's 16-year-old; vibrant, clear-eyed, frank and astonishingly well-poised." Since adolescent poise still astonishes millions of people and adolescent vibrations still roll most adults in the aisles, it is a safe bet that Janie will clean up as tidily at cinema box offices as it did on Broadway (TIME, Sept...
...Sell a "Character." But gargantuan sets were easy by comparison with the problem of converting a famously cold and fiercely arrogant intellectual-in the withering jargon of show business, a "character"-into a cinema hero. The makers of Wilson have gentled, sweetened, warmed, simplified and softlighted Woodrow Wilson's complex personality in every way the facts allowed. Their title-role choice of Canadian-born Alexander Knox, largely for his excellent voice, was well-nigh perfect for the purpose...