Word: cinemas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trying to make the rest of the world like America - plumbing isn't everything. But we can hope that the rest of the world will come to like many of our ways and adopt them." Sylvia Sidney, declaring herself ready to resume her sultry stage and cinema career after three years of retirement received some nicely timed publicity, courtesy of something called the Artists and Sculptors Institute. Bracketing her with Cinemactresses Lana Turner, Rita Hayworth and Jane Russell, the Institute called Sylvia one of the "most exciting women in the history of motion pictures." Claude Wickard, Secretary of Agriculture...
Born. To Maureen O'Hara, 23, redhaired, hazel-eyed cinema eyeful, and Lieut. Will Price, 31, onetime film dialoguer: a daughter, their first child; in Holly wood. Name: "either Bridget, Megan, or Emily." Weight...
Scripter Raymond Chandler (The Big Sleep) is himself no mean writer of hard-boiled melodrama. With his help Director Wilder and his players manage admirably to translate into hard-boiled cinema James Cain's hard-boiled talents...
...were describing the battle of Stalingrad. They sometimes sing as if they were possessed of seven devils and a Trotskyite. They often sing loudly in They Met in Moscow. But the picture's lyrical ebullience, its naively intense people, its fresh landscapes combine to make something rare in cinema-an unaffected pastoral comedy, spontaneous as a freshet, natural as a pail of warm milk...
...imaginativeness. The British propaganda version of the song may have been effective in the war of nerves; in this picture it sounds so cheap that it all but defeats its own end. As a film, Lili Marlene never quite makes up its mind whether it is propaganda or cinema...