Word: director
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grew up with the company." He started at 19, as an engineering clerk ("I always tried to get the desk nearest the boss's door"), worked up through drafting-room superintendent, parts manager, service manager, sales executive, and, after a bitter strike in 1937, became industrial relations director...
Italy's swarthy, balding Director Roberto Rossellini (Open City, Paisan), on his first visit to the U.S., was taking the fast pace of Hollywood in stride last week. The telephone in his double suite at the Beverly Hills Hotel was kept ringing by cinema celebrities eager to entertain him. The evening he arrived, he dined with Ingrid Bergman (he expects to sign her up for his next picture). The next night there was a small, stylish dinner given by Writer-Director Billy Wilder. One morning David O. Selznick called...
...Three Godfathers (Argosy; M-G-M), made by independent producers, is the work of such talented people as Director John Ford (The Informer, The Long Voyage Home), Producer Merian C. Cooper (The Long Voyage Home, Fort Apache) and Scripters Laurence Stallings (What Price Glory) and Frank S. Nugent (Fort Apache). The finished product gives the viewer the kind of shock he might get from seeing all the Flying Wallendas fall off the high wire at once. Godfathers is close to being an unintentional parody on the old-fashioned western...
...Director Ford was apparently trying to develop a muscular yarn about the effect of innocence and helplessness on man's wickedness. Three escaping bank bandits, in Technicolor, stumble across a woman in childbirth, stranded in a covered wagon during a sandstorm. The crooks, all 15-minute eggs, immediately begin quaking with spasms of oldtime religion, secondhand paternal pride and firsthand conscience. One of the godfathers (Harry Carey Jr.) dies from exhaustion and a slight wound he picked up in the robbery. Another (Pedro Armendariz) breaks a leg and has to shoot himself. That leaves John Wayne and Baby; Mother...
...appointment was announced yesterday by Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy and director of the Observatory. Shapley is a past president and a member of the Governing Council of the Society...