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Housewife Loretta Young's husband (Barry Sullivan) lies in bed nursing a bad heart and the sick delusion that his wife and his doctor (Bruce Cowling) are in love and planning to kill him. He writes the accusation into a letter full of circumstantial details, addresses it to the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Feb. 26, 1951 | 2/26/1951 | See Source »

Made by famed Producer-Director Roberto (Ingrid Bergman) Rossellini with his then favorite actress, Anna Magnani, it tells the story of a deranged Italian peasant girl who is seduced by a bearded wayfarer under the impression that she is seeing a vision of St. Joseph. Her resulting pregnancy, she is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Miracle | 2/19/1951 | See Source »

I would say I think Across the River and into the Trees stinks except I did not write Men Without Women and The Sun Also Rises and therefore, by Mr. Faulkner's logic, I have nothing to stand on while I throw such a spitball. Would a few well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 4, 1950 | 12/4/1950 | See Source »

That day and night, and the next, and the next, drink and sleeplessness and memories and the pressure of finishing the script dissolved Manley Halliday like a lump of sugar in the depths of an oldfashioned. The passages describing the long, lost weekend on the campus are among the most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Bottom of the Glass | 11/13/1950 | See Source »

John Steinbeck undoubtedly wrote "Burning Bright" under the delusion that he was creating an allegorical drama of Life. It is unpleasant to report that his labor has resulted in a painfully pretentious bit of claptrap.

Author: By Stephen O. Saxe, | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 10/4/1950 | See Source »

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