Word: gene
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gene Smith is a great photographer for LIFE, rather than a correspondent for TIME. But the letter he wrote Correspondent Shelley Mydans the night before he was wounded on Okinawa is so filled with the spirit with which so many other TIME & LIFE men have shared the dangers of our troops in a hundred battles that I believe you should...
...think you may understand all these men better if you understand why Gene Smith, all unarmed, volunteered to face the enemy in the darkness of the front line for a story to which he was not assigned, but about whose importance he felt passionately...
...bring hypercorporeal Jack Oakie, an oldtime music-hall magician, back to earth as a ghost to: 1) help his daughter (Peggy Ryan) put her vaudevillian blood into circulation; 2) scare a housemaid (Irene Ryan) by walking invisibly behind her on squeaky shoes; 3) frustrate and reform a family tyrant (Gene Lockhart); 4) try to explain to his own widow (June Vincent) that the "dark lady" (Karen Randle) he walked off with, some 18 years before, was no lady, but the Angel of Death...
...heaviest-Gene Lockhart and Andy Devine acting like boys of eight-the fantasy is both unfunny and mawkish. At its best-a flock of ancient socialites helplessly jiving Wagner's Evening Star-it has a weird, wild, death-dance vitality which shows how tame most deliberate surrealism...
...morale means just One Thing to all men. The hero really loves the nice girl (Joan Leslie) who loves him, but he doesn't know it yet. He gets hold of a magic lamp in a scrap-salvage drive. The lamp breaks, and releases a gaily kosher genie (Gene Sheldon). The grateful genie gives him three wishes -which rather confusingly turn out to be four or five...