Word: gildas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some films that made the grade: House of Dracula, Dick Tracy v. Cueball, Gilda, The Best Years of Our Lives, The Outlaw. Explained a Library spokesman: the selections were not necessarily the year's "best," but they "most faithfully record in one way or another, the contemporary lives and preferences of the American people...
...year Lauritz Melchior made his Metropolitan debut in Tannhäuser, an event eclipsed by another debut the evening of the same day. With the greatest blowing & puffing of publicity ever to accompany a U.S. operatic debut, Marion Talley, an 18-year-old Kansas City soprano, sang Gilda in Rigoletto, to the clicking of telegraph keys and the onrush of trainloads of Kansas citizenry. After three years of straining her immature voice, Marion Talley retired from opera for good. (Currently the Met is plugging immature Patrice Munsel, a Spokane coloratura who made her Met debut...
...Hidden by canvas from all but a superselect few, The Thing was drawn up into the bay. All that could be told about it was that it was big enough to have a foot-high picture of Cinemactress Rita Hayworth pasted on its side. The Thing was called Gilda (after Miss Hayworth's latest movie...
...Postman Always Rings Twice (MGM) and Gilda (Columbia...
...Gilda (Columbia) is the result of ambrosial Rita Hayworth's desire to prove that she can act. She proves it fully as well as the next Hollywood girl (unless that girl happens to have specific talent for acting), but mainly, as always before, she proves that she is such a looker that nothing else much matters...