Word: foxed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...course of filming a horse opera, 20th Century-Fox was forced to call in a paleface archery expert named Abel Lewis to teach 35 Indians how to use bows & arrows...
Canadian Pacific (20th Century-Fox) digs up a job worthy of Randolph Scott: building a railroad to link Canada's coasts. Troubleshooter Scott squares his jaw against villainous trappers, savage redskins and the Canadian Rockies (in Cinecolor). With the love of two good women (Jane Wyatt and Newcomer Nancy Olson), he finally gets the trains running, but not until Canadian Pacific has dallied at every whistle stop on an over-traveled, one-track story line...
...dual selection (with Fred Gipson's Hound-Dog Man) and distributing 250,000 copies. In five months Publisher Crowell has sold an additional 150,000 copies and reports that customers are still carrying it out of bookstores at the rate of 5,000 copies a week. Twentieth Century-Fox paid out $100,000 for the screen rights...
...Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend {20th Century-Fox} is a wild-eyed jamboree starring Betty Grable and co-starring the explosive, uneven talents of Writer-Director-Producer Preston Sturges (The Miracle of Morgan's Creek). The show is a running battle between sex and slapstick, which to most right-minded Grable fans will seem an impertinent piece of lese majesty...
...Happens Every Spring [20th-Century-Fox] is the kind of thing that happens only in the mind of a hard-pressed Hollywood gag writer. The gag is acted out by Ray Milland, a serious young chemistry instructor at a Midwest university who is also a serious baseball fan. One day, puttering with mysterious solutions in his laboratory, Milland accidentally hits upon a liquid mixture that repels wood. It takes the low-salaried chemist just a second longer than it takes he audience to see the possibilities of his wonderful compound. When the idea dawns, he skips out on his college...