Word: cooperative
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Unconquered (Paramount) is Cecil Blount DeMille's florid, $5,000,000, Technicolored celebration of Gary Cooper's virility, Paulette Goddard's femininity and the American Frontier Spirit. The movie is getting such stentorian ballyhoo that a lot of cinemagoers are likely to think less of it than it deserves. It is, to be sure, a huge, high-colored chunk of hokum; but the most old-fashioned thing about it is its exuberance, a quality which 66-year-old Director DeMille preserves almost single-handed from the old days when even the people who laughed at movies couldn...
...hours after the beginning of "An Inspector Calls," just as two balconies, an orchestra, and several boxes full of tired and tortured audience are about to give up the ghost, Melville Cooper puts down the telephone and recites a quiet curtain line that makes this J. B. Priestley opus almost worth seeing. That one sentence also reveals spectacularly how good a play the production might have been with even adequate direction or acting...
Other players are also defective. Melville Cooper's interpretation of the father's role is hecurate, but he seemed to have learned only a small percentage of his lines by the third night of the Boston run. Doris Lloyd, his theatrical spouse, also went up like a balloon more than once, but her performance otherwise was effective, as were the other members of the cast...
Divorced. Ann Cooper Hewitt Gay Bradstreet Whitaker, 33, who once suffered national tabloid fame as the "sterilized heiress"; by her third husband, Mining Operator John Whitaker, 56; after six years; in Reno. Heiress Ann (daughter of Inventor Peter Cooper Hewitt) in 1936 filed a lurid suit (eventually dropped) charging that her mother had had her illegally sterilized...
...good and didn't care who knew it, the Giants' boss slugger is inclined to be diffident about it all. Says Mize of the Babe's record: "I've never broken it and I don't know why I would this year." Walker Cooper admits that the Giants are likely to beat the team record this year-but, he adds, "it's up to the rest. Lord knows...