Word: dores
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Produced by M-G-M Production Chief Dore Schary,* the film begins by picturing the petty domestic frictions and foibles of Joe Smith (James Whitmore), a California aircraft worker, his pregnant wife (Nancy Davis) and their ten-year-old son (Gary Gray). Joe is sympathetic but short-tempered; he chafes at routine, hates his foreman (Art Smith), grimaces at his wife's box lunches, fumes at his stalling jalopy. One evening, in the Smith living room, the Voice breaks into a radio program to say: "This is God. I will be with you for the next few days...
...week's end, the judge was still as welcome in Hollywood as a tarantula at a picnic, but he had finally won an audience with MGM's Dore Schary, in charge of public relations for the Motion Picture Industry Council. He asked Schary for help in lining up meetings with other industry leaders. Schary passed the request along to the council, which decided to take it "under consideration." Meanwhile, on his $9-a-day expense allowance, the investigator could go on contemplating sin without much risk of running into...
...leading bid for Academy Award honors-and the first job at the studio to be signed by Producer Dore Schary-stacks up well against such recent combat films as Task Force and Command Decision; nonetheless such a wartime documentary as San Pietro makes it seem like a put-up job. Rarely catching the quick fury of infantry fighting, the camera shots are mostly the comfortable, carefully composed setups that are possible in a studio production, but in actual warfare would mean a quick death for the cameraman. Neatest trick: in most of the snowstorm scenes the snow sticks to everything...
Dartmouth--Saxton, g; Fancher, rfb; Dore, lfb; Austin, rhb; Hart, chb; Estranda, lhb; Tompson, or; Leshure, ir; Hopkins, cf; Scully, il; Clarif...
...pictures as for picking good men for the job and keeping an eye on them. Until his death in 1936, Producer Irving Thalberg gave M-G-M its creative spark. After that, quality sagged, but last year-when the wartime movie boom had clearly ended-L.B. brought in Dore Schary to make repairs...