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...Moore moved something called the Hollywood Bachelors' Club to the week's unlikeliest outburst of self-expression. These three ladies, said the fellows, were their very favorite "cats." Then the bachelors explained: "Kittenish dames give us the wim-wams. But it takes a smart woman to be downright catty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Vision | 10/28/1946 | See Source »

Even if both title and cast are downright thrilling, A.R.I, may discover that customers look bored at mention of the proposed story about an unhappy North Dakota farm wife. The manufacturer who persists in going through with such a dubious theme is warned to soft-pedal it in advertising. (Paramount's Double Indemnity suffered when advance publicity tipped off audiences that Fred MacMurray was cast as a heel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A. P. & Want-to-See | 7/22/1946 | See Source »

...wouldn't fool anyone. But for story purposes, Trumpeter James refers to her as an "iceberg." The criticism piques Maureen. Before you can say Max Factor, she has gone shopping for a fancy hairdo and a six-skin blue fox stole. As a swan, she is, of course, downright sensational. The long, low whistles she inspires in all the male members of the cast are the most realistic part of the entire picture. Once her glasses are off, Maureen's only real problem is making up her mind which lovesick suitor she'll marry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jun. 10, 1946 | 6/10/1946 | See Source »

...London (Associated British; 20th Century-Fox) is probably the most pro-American picture ever made outside the U.S. A story of the G.I. Occupation of England (circa 1943-44), it is not merely patient with the Yanks who swarmed over Piccadilly Circus like lusty, thirsty locusts. It is downright cordial toward the good-natured, homesick army of boys who whistled at the girls up & down Regent Street or Shaftesbury Avenue, jammed the pubs to drink up all the spirits in sight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Mar. 18, 1946 | 3/18/1946 | See Source »

...Downright Unbearable." The daily critics, to a man, trounced Truckline. Said the Daily News's John Chapman: "The worst play I have seen since I have been in the reviewing business." Moaned the Sun's Ward Morehouse: "In its more pretentious interludes, it becomes downright unbearable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Cafe Brawl | 3/11/1946 | See Source »

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