Word: film
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Matisse -dutifully responded to a cable from Charles Chaplin asking them to protest the deportation* to Germany of Hollywood Composer Hanns Eisler. To the Paris Embassy the celebrities sent their message: please let Eisler use his visa to France, where "we expect [him] to write the music for the film Alice in Wonderland." Said Cocteau: "If Eisler's music is good, who cares about his politics? . . . Politics are dirty. Art is pure...
Edmund Gwenn, veteran character actor that he is, gets the freest of reins in this innocuous little film--and he overacts his way magnificently through the role of an irascible old Scottish sheepherder, soaked in Scotch and fighting a losing battle with a heather-clogged accent. Plot concerns a couple of rival dogs, the annual sheepherding trials, and dastardly murders (of sheep) by one of the aforementioned canines...
...actress thus bracketed last week was Celia Johnson, star of such British films as This Happy Breed and Brief Encounter (in which her performance was voted the year's best by New York City's film critics). The occasion: her first stage appearance in five years, as the heroine in the Old Vic production of Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan. The reception was unusual for Celia only in that it contained dissent...
...Philadelphia the presentation of the film resulted in a warning by the local archbishop against it, and pickets marched in protest around the two theatres featuring the "historical", picture...
Shoeshine. A moving film about two boys in postwar Italy (TIME, Sept...