Word: filming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Secretary of Education, Ivan has charge of the making of a government film epic on the life of San Martin. Recently, he summoned Argentina's top movie actors to his office, assigned them roles. The one part left unfilled was that of the Liberator. The actors went away with a strong impression that Oscar Ivanissevich was saving it for himself...
Britain's Moira Shearer, red-haired prima ballerina of the movie The Red Shoes (TIME, Oct. 25), panned her own film as bad ballet. In a lecture to London's Royal Academy of Dancing, she said that making the picture had been a "mistake," and that furthermore, the display advertising made her look like "Jane Russell in black tights...
Hamlet. Shakespeare and Sir Laurence Olivier collaborate on a film classic (TIME, June...
Command Decision largely ignores the men who handled the planes, although most of the film's emotional sock is in the bit parts of the men who flew missions, well played by John Hodiak, Cameron Mitchell, Marshall Thompson and Michael Steele. Like the play and the book before it, the movie makes out a sympathetic case for the desk-bound generals and echoes Novelist-War Correspondent Ernest Hemingway's observation that generals are good people...
Symphonie Pastorale. A subtle, emotionally complex French film based on an André Gide story; with Michele Morgan (TIME...