Word: film
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Born. To Jane Withers, 22, onetime No. 1 cinemoppet, and William Moss, 27, film producer: their first child, a daughter; in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Wendy Leigh. Weight...
...been quite so conscientious in copying Dickens and his illustrator, George Cruikshank. Director Lean's Great Expectations was hailed wherever it was shown as a superbly Dickensian cinema (TIME, May 26, 1947). In Fagin's case, Lean actually followed Cruikshank more closely than Dickens. The film never calls Fagin a Jew (Dickens rarely called him anything else), but he is faithfully villainous and repulsive-and unmistakably...
...loud howl came from New York Star Columnist Albert Deutsch; who had seen the picture in London. Deutsch charged that "even . . . Dickens . . . could not make Fagin half so horrible," and warned that the film would fan the flames of antiSemitism. In Manhattan, the Board of Rabbis appealed to Eric Johnston to keep the movie off U.S. screens. Other Jewish groups took...
Officials of the State Department of Hygiene discovered after further investigation that the film in their portable machine had never been exposed at all. However, all X-rays taken on Friday and Saturday were found to be in good order...
...John A. Monks, in charge of the X-rays operations, said, "Apparently the film jammed and never even came out of the cylinder. Anyone who takes pictures knows how easily something like that can happen...