Word: formulas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...young newcomer, displayed a good talent for putting over a humorous song; she would go far if only she could muster enough volume for the gallery seats. Further time was killed in a tongue-in-cheek attempt to portray "The American Tragedy" via the R-H (Rodgers and Hammerstein) formula. Dreiser is already dead, but his estate might find grounds for some sort of lawsuit here...
These whodunit movies are fast running to formula, but the chances are that in at least two respects they will continue to be better than most movies: 1) in their portrayal of the shabby, menacing beauty of U.S. cities (there is a breath-taking street view of a Los Angeles rooming house in Doubloon) and 2) in the minor players who, with only a minute or so to make their points, impersonate, with passionate proficiency, the deep-sea fish of the underworld...
...their first independent production (under J. Arthur Rank), they stuck to their highly successful formula; their adaptation of Coward's one-acter, Brief Encounter, was one of the top critical successes of the year - in both Britain and the U.S. They decided to make Great Expectations for two reasons: 1) it was about time to try something besides Noel Coward's work, and 2) Lean had read through the complete works of Dickens in search of movie material...
Pamela Kellino, actress-wife of Britain's romantic Cinemenace James Mason, arrived at a formula for a happy marriage: "The only possible way to make marriage work is to stay so close together that you couldn't possibly get apart...
...President turned to graver matters. Everything was still lovely, but for that troublesome cloud shadow on the spring landscape-high prices and the danger of a recession. Speaking at the annual luncheon of the Associated Press in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria hotel,* Harry Truman ringingly reiterated his familiar formula for avoiding depression: "Prices must be brought down...