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Many movies ago, we were duly convinced that the American schoolmarm is a figure of heroic proportions. It is she, we found, who tirelessly molds our youth and starts it on the familiar path from red-brick school to White House. Always she sacrifices; always she loses her lover; always...

Author: By R. T. S., | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 2/27/1942 | See Source »

But there are sadder, bitterer, funnier relationships between head and body, desire and fulfillment, than the original storyteller ever dreamed of; these, and their solution, make up the rest of Mann's book. A fade-out starts Sita's child, who combines many of the features of all...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Transformed Legend | 6/9/1941 | See Source »

Cagney: As the capstone to Warners' build-up of Ann Sheridan, the fade-out required Cagney to observe: "You and your 14-carat oomph!" When Cinemactor Cagney protested the line, Producer Mark Hellinger bet him $100 that audiences would give the gag the loudest laugh of the film. A...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 27, 1940 | 5/27/1940 | See Source »

The House Appropriations Committee found no existing law that would authorize the appropriation. Last week the bill reached the Senate. Gallantly Oklahoma's Senator Elmer Thomas led a fight for life for the U. S. Film Service, strove to get the $106,400 restored to the bill. Senators voted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Fight for Life | 5/6/1940 | See Source »

Down the church aisle strides Crusader Britton, dragging the bad girl. She tells all. The good girl realizes what a viper the publisher is. The bad girl marries him anyhow - to give her child a name. The fade-out shows Crusader Britton pushing away a montage of salacious magazines.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Indecency | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

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