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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Filmed on German locations, Male War Bride uses well-photographed landscapes as backdrops for its pratfalls and manages somehow to turn occupied Germany into a comic-opera set, peopled by quaint peasants and toy soldiers. With no dialogue worthy of deft Comedian Grant, it makes its major bid for comedy by turning him into a female impersonator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 12, 1949 | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

Some 25,000 times a day in the nation's stockyards a hog offal operator plunges her hand into the bloody base of a hog's severed head as it travels down the conveyer chain. With deft fingers she gets hold of the pituitary gland. Then, with a pair of tweezers, she removes the front half of the gland and drops it into a container of Dry Ice. That is the first step in the production of ACTH, the new wonder drug which may ultimately save millions from the ravages of arthritis, gout, rheumatic fever and kindred ills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Hope Deferred | 8/15/1949 | See Source »

Quartet. A deft British foursome of Somerset Maugham short stories (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Aug. 15, 1949 | 8/15/1949 | See Source »

Quartet. A deft British foursome of Somerset Maugham short stories (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Aug. 8, 1949 | 8/8/1949 | See Source »

Quartet. A deft British foursome of Somerset Maugham short stories (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Aug. 1, 1949 | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

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