Word: cinemas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wilson (20th Century-Fox), cinema biography of the 28th U.S. President, may not be the most ambitious and venture some moving picture ever made. But it is indisputably the most expensive. The wardrobe alone cost $200,000; the total cost of this three-hour plea for internationalism-including $1,200,000 for promotion-is some...
Hollywood at the Crossroads. Wilson is not a great picture, but it is an extremely absorbing, significant and entertaining one, which everyone interested in the protracted coming-of-age of U.S. cinema will welcome. Millions are likely to be excited and moved by it. It is not the first or the best Hollywood attempt to make first-rate entertainment out of serious ideas. But more spectacularly than any other film to date, Wilson represents Hollywood at the crossroads-a Hollywood scared to death of mature responsibilities yet eager to assume them, and willing now & again to bet its shirt...
...with a simple plot, but the underlying idea is not simple, and its weird, almost haunting quality. The idea of one person undermining the confidence of another, artfully plotting to prey upon his weaknesses and doubts with insanity the ultimate end, has a certain horrible strangeness that is powerful cinema. It makes you think, and it makes "Gaslight...
...said: "Stuff like Humphrey Bogart whipping a whole German armored-car column practically singlehanded gives us pains in the pratt, because that kind of crap gives the folks at home the wrong kind of idea about what we are up against." In the South Pacific, as one cinema hero mowed down the enemy like Superman at harvest home, G.l.s sprang to their feet yelling: "Wait a minute buddy, I'll help yah!" Then they shot up the screen...
Died. Mildred Harris, 41, onetime cinemactress, first of Charles Chaplin's four wives; of pneumonia; in Los Angeles. She was 16 when she married Chaplin in 1918. two years later divorced him, charging that "he never did anything but think." She married twice again, tried many cinema comebacks, in 1937 played in burlesque...