Word: crain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pinky. The most skillful propaganda-entertainment to come out of Hollywood's current preoccupation with the plight of the U.S. Negro; starring Jeanne Crain (TIME...
...Keith Memorial, the story of pro football in which Vic Mature kicks around Liz Scott; "Jolson Sings Again" at the Low's Orpheum, Larry Parks as He; "Come to the Stable" at Loew's Publix, Celeste Holm and Loretta Young as Sisters; "Pinky" at the Astor, Jeanno Crain portrays a light-skinned colored nurse; "Yes Sir, That's My Baby" at the RKO Boston, Donald O'Connor proves he's not my boy; "Savage Splendor" at the Pilgrim, exotic Africa in garish technicolor. Walt Disney's "Ichabed and Mr. Toad" is back up on Tremant Street near the Park Street...
...Jeanne Crain, in her first serious role as Pinky, acts with the required amount of uneasiness but cannot quite convey the emotional torment which is supposed to be shaking her personality to pieces. she comes off well in the more active places, but meditation finds her a little too demure...
Pinky. The best, thus far, of the Negro problem firms, with Jeanne Crain (TIME...
...movie with a tearful title and containing a cast of Jeanne Crain, Ann Southern, and Linda Darnell, is likely to be by-passed by the discriminate moviegoer. That would be a great mistake in the case of "A Letter to Three Wives." It is one of the most witty, intelligent, and well-acted comedies within reasonable memory...