Word: danae
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rated (with just one picture -Duel} as a $10,750,000 star; Gregory Peck, with two pictures, rated an $8,000,000 average as a customer-puller; Linda Darnell (with one), $8,000,000; Gary Cooper (with one), $7,500,000; Teresa Wright (with two), $7,200,000; Dana Andrews (with two), $6,875,000; William Powell (with one), $6,250,000; Irene Dunne (with one), $6,250,000; Bing Crosby (with one), $6,100,000; Larry Parks (with...
From then until the story went to press three days later, he was busy revising and rewriting. The story was completely typed eight different times. Everybody from Managing Editor T. S. Matthews, Executive Editor Roy Alexander and Assistant Managing Editor Dana Tasker read it and made comments. Not until six hours before press time was Editor-Writer Purtell entirely satisfied with the review...
...Secretary Lester B. ("Mike") Pearson. No, said Prime Minister Mackenzie King, Canada needs him at home. The next suggestion was General Andrew G. L. McNaughton. But the P.M. thought that McNaughton had his hands full as Canada's atomic-energy specialist. Then the P.M.'s advisers proposed Dana Wil-gress, former ambassador to Russia. Just the man, the P.M. thought-until he learned that Wilgress, now at the I.T.O. meeting in Havana, was exhausted and would not accept the job. Other candidates? The P.M.'s advisers shrugged; Canada, with a young striped-pants corps, simply...
...does marry Henry (she eventually does), will she ever manage really to forget Dana's extramarital embraces? And will Henry ever be free of his dead wife, and of the reverberations of the war? And if Dana's wife at last gets around to divorcing him, and he comes after Joan, which man will she choose? Or will she choose either? To Dana, and to most of the audience, all this looks easy. But you never can tell about women...
...slick paper. But Joan Crawford knows as well as any movie star how to make such a manhandled heroine into a magic mirror for women moviegoers. Henry Fonda is a shrewd comedian, in spite of having to play that eternal Lost Little Boy who unleashes skittish maternal emotions. Dana Andrews, a most talented actor, has to call someone "honeybunch" umpteen times in this show, yet he never fails to make it a more or less fresh revelation of character. Director Otto Preminger is expert at the glossy details that are useful to this sort of story...