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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...That Forsyte Woman" was a potentially great film because there are few women in contemporary literature who would make as fascinating subjects to characterize as the Irene of John Galsworthy's "Forsyte Saga." An adequate portryal of this subtle, beautiful woman in her relations with one of England's nouveau riche dynasties would require consummate skill and perception. Unfortunately neither Greer Garson nor her lovers (Errol Flynn, Robert Young, and Walter Pidgeon) showed this; but they were not entirely to blame...
When he opened the world's biggest drugstore in Hollywood two years ago, Rexall Drug, Inc.'s President Justin Whitlock Dart threw a $90,000 party complete with film stars, searchlights and 10,000 free orchids. To Justin Dart, onetime tackle at Northwestern University, the celebration was the booming kickoff to the Rexall team's postwar expansion program. But by last week many a stockholder had begun to wonder why Rexall had not followed up with a few smashing plays...
Jolson Sings Again. Zestful sequel to the film biography of mammy's favorite son; with Larry Parks and Jolson's voice (TIME, Sept...
Back in Hollywood for a new film, Summer Stock, Judy found that she was too healthy to squeeze into the clothes fashioned to the studio wardrobe's dummy of her normally 115-lb. figure. She promised to cut down on her health by 15 pounds in time for her first rehearsal...
Despite its gummy spots, e.g., a trite pep talk by Chaplain Leon Ames explaining to a battle-hardened gang of veterans why they are fighting, Battleground is the sternest studio-made war film since The Story of GI Joe. On the debit side, each soldier is given a bit of colorful routine that is tiresomely underlined every time the soldier is seen: Private Douglas Fowley loses or clicks his store-bought teeth; ex-Editor John Hodiak mourns over the fact that his wife in Sedalia knows more about the battle than he does. But Director William Wellman threads...