Word: film
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have access to a television set have seen some or all of the eleven episodes of Crusade in Europe that have now been telecast in the U.S. As you know from my Letter in the March 14 issue, the MARCH OF TIME made this documentary film of General Dwight Eisenhower's best-selling book, Crusade in Europe, at the request of 20th Century-Fox, which had bought the television rights from the publishers, Doubleday & Co. It is being telecast in 26 weekly episodes by the American Broadcasting Co., and TIME and LIFE are its sponsors...
...Reading as many papers as I do ... I have been tremendously impressed with the reactions of editors and critics to this remarkable film series. The men and women of LIFE and TIME have added new scope to General Eisenhower's great book and . . . they have given to all of us-the older generation, the young people of today, and our children tomorrow-a view of what millions endured during World War II. We whose sons were under fire in the war suffered enormous strain, but only now can we, through these films, really fully appreciate the burdens that...
Married. David 0. Selznick, 47, cinemagnate (Gone With the Wind, Duel in the Sun); and Jennifer Jones, 30, cinemactress (The Song of Bernadette) ; each for the second time; in Genoa. The marriage, solemnized in the midst of preparations for Jennifer's new European-made film, Gone to Earth, was scripted by Selznick himself. After some rumors that the wedding had been performed at sea, the couple foxed reporters by slipping off to Genoa's city hall. Fadeout: a moonlit honeymoon on the French Riviera aboard the Manona, a 33-ton chartered yacht...
...fleeting moments, the cockeyed speed of the chase recalls the wonderful jet-propelled jalopies of the old silent comedies. Not half so effective as comic relief is the stock, bug-eyed mugging of William Bendix. One of the best things in the film is the shy, incredulous expressions of the Mexican extras...
...tough little film about a washed-up small-timer (Robert Ryan) in the fight racket (TIME, April...