Word: effort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...smugly sycophantic Attorney General, Mr. Biddle, who is always available, it seems, with any legal interpretation desired by his masters, contributed his bit to this classically European situation by his condescending remark that Mr. Avery "put up quite a fight." Pleading the "war effort" is scarcely any excuse for this highhanded and dictatorial confiscation of a business property and this cynical violence upon the person of a respectable, though anti-New Deal, gentleman whose difficulties with Government bureaus do not necessarily brand him a common crook...
...cannot conceive of any reason for the attitude this picture has taken. The movie industry as a whole has been a burden on the war effort. It has failed to turn out good propaganda, for one thing, and to round out a picture of inefficiency, its escapist fare has been extraordinarily bad. When one looks around at the Russian, German, and British film industries, laboring under worse handicaps and turning out consistently more effective stuff than the "great" American movie magnates, one wonders where Hollywood gets the gall to bare a back tattooed "Pat Here" to the American pubic...
...Miracle" is Preston Sturges's sixth effort, and betters all of them except the first, "The Great McGinty" from which it borrows two characters. The show is always moderately funny, maintains a good entertainment level, and holds the interest...
...worked his pudgy lips. At the end there was no decision. The caucus chairman, indecisive Socialist Arthur Greenwood, was clearly afraid that the ouster would fail. And failure would have been equal to repudiation of Ernest Bevin, a serious thing on the eve of Britain's greatest war effort. The crisis was postponed. But it remained a crisis...
...Biggest cinemiscarriage was Pin-Up Girl (20th Century-Fox), which Betty Grable made during the early stages of pregnancy. Cinemactress Grable plays the toast of a midland chapter of the U.S.O., becomes so amiable a Pin-Up Girl that half the war effort thinks it is engaged to her. Later in Manhattan and Washington she meets a heroic sailor (John Harvey), takes his advances seriously, whiles the reels away with deceptions, misunderstandings, quarrels, songs & dances. Typical number: Martha Raye sings Red Robins, Bob-whites and Bluebirds, while a lot of girls rhythmically wag the red, white & blue rear ends...