Word: foxe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then the harsh blow fell. From 20th Century-Fox came word that Darryl Zanuck was toying with the idea of casting Tyrone Power as the Sheik. A producer at Monogram named Jan Grippo also announced that he would make a movie based on Valentino's life...
...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...
House of Strangers (20th Century-Fox) is a richly detailed exploration of a family vendetta in Manhattan's lower East Side. A kind of Mulberry Street version of Joseph and his brethren, it tells the story of Gino Monetti (Edward G. Robinson), an immigrant Italian banker, and his four sons. One of the sons (Richard Conte), a cocky, hard-boiled young lawyer, is his father's favorite. The other three are underpaid, overworked stooges at the old man's bank...
Grade A lords & ladies, driving their Daimlers and hunting the fox halfway in time between two world wars, swarm all over this chatty, rambling book. Lavish Hampton Park in western England, home of one of Britain's richest, noblest families, is their weekend headquarters. There, hostess Lady Montdore whips them through their social paces and screens the bachelors who swarm around her daughter. Polly Montdore at 19 is more beautiful than all the priceless Hampton oil paintings put together-and colder than a Highlands wind. When the man of her choice is free to marry, she does...
...That Melville's influence can be dangerous is shown in this case by the fact that Nunn Ballew's chase of King Devil has little of the intensity of Ahab's passionate quest after the white whale. In the end, the hunting down of the great fox is only an interruption in the more interesting story of a family's fight to win back its place in the world...