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Birth of a Nation, D. W. Griffith's 1915 melodrama featuring Lillian Gish, carpetbagging and Ku Kluxing in the Old South, has been voluntarily shelved by the Museum. Film Library officials, recalling that the picture started race riots in 1915 and again in 1921, admit the "greatness of the film" and "its artistic and historic importance." But because of "the potency of its anti-Negro bias . . . exhibiting it at this time of heightened social tensions cannot be justified." Students are advised that Birth of a Nation is still in the Museum's files and gets "limited circulation...
...film's quartet of young lovers-who pair off wrong in the beginning and eventually have to be reshuffled-are Jeanne Grain, Cornel Wilde, Linda Darnell and William Eythe. More mature romantic types are played by Constance Bennett, Dorothy Gish and Walter Brennan. The plot works hard to prove that the course of true love rarely runs smooth. No up-to-date writer of movie fan mail will be greatly surprised to learn that Cornel Wilde (his studio's male champion receiver of fan letters) gets a last-reel embrace from Jeanne Grain (fan mail runner...
Oldtime Cinemactress Lillian Gish, rarely seen in films during recent years, is a lacy, frail, sweet Miss Susie. As an earnest but queasy would-be surgeon living in her house, hulking Sonny Tufts, Exeter-and-Yale-educated in real life, acts with unusual restraint. The inevitable local-professor's-pretty-daughter is talented, wide-eyed, blonde Newcomer Joan Caulfield. The plot complications are tried & true, but the medical-school atmosphere seems reasonably authentic-and the medical schoolboy humor is good-natured and not too grisly...
...merits and trumpeting the number of Gone With the Wind records already shattered. Some of them: shooting time, eight months and three weeks, about a month more than Selznick's GWTW; extras and bit players, 3,000; nine stars, including Joseph Gotten, Gregory Peck, Walter Huston, Lillian Gish and Jennifer (Bernadette) Jones, who is cast this time as a sexy, busty half-breed...
...been scoring radio firsts right & left. It claims to have broadcast the first play-by-play accounts of baseball and football games, World Series game (1920), prize fight, full symphony concert (with Ossip Gabrilowitsch and the Detroit Symphony). Walter Hampden, Fanny Brice, Fred Waring, Ty Cobb, Lillian Gish and Thomas E. Dewey (singing with an Owosso church choir) made their radio debuts over...