Word: directors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mary McLeod Bethune, "The Booker T. Washington of Florida," who once taught five little black girls in a cabin on a Florida dump and is now president of Daytona Beach's $800,000 co-educational Bethune-Cookman College. Since she turned up in Washington as director of the Division of Negro Affairs in Aubrey Williams' National Youth Administration, Mrs. Bethune has also won recognition as one of her race's most adroit politicians...
...Great Man Votes he was given $200,000, John Barrymore and Peter Holden. A superproduction in comparison with Kanin's earlier efforts, it is still a quickie according to normal Hollywood standards. Director Kanin, in his accustomed style, makes capital of its entertainment assets far beyond its cost...
...Great Man Votes (RKO Radio). Latest and youngest addition to the long roster of Hollywood "geniuses" is Director Garson Kanin, whose specialty is making silk purses out of sows' ears. A onetime Broadway actor and assistant to Broadway Producer George Abbott, Director Kanin started his cinema career as an odd-job man for Sam Goldwyn in 1937, when he was 24. Last year RKO somewhat skeptically allowed him to direct a B-picture called A Man to Remember, which was equipped with a no-star cast and budgeted for a mere $119,000. Kanin turned it into an excellent...
...broken-down Harvard professor who, at the death of his wife, gives way to drink and inertia. An accident of ward politics makes this picturesque bum of crucial importance in a municipal election. How this situation affects him and his lively little son and daughter is revealed by Director Kanin with a maximum of warm, perceptive humor, a decent minimum of emotional climaxes...
...working with child prodigies, who usually lack adult scruples about stealing scenes. John Barrymore is no exception to this rule, but he is one of the few actors who are capable of taking an eye for an eye against any baby star in pictures. Not the least remarkable of Director Kanin's achievements in The Great Man Votes was keeping this competition between Barrymore and Holden almost invisible on the screen. Good shot: Barrymore stealing a scene when he is supposed to be asleep...