Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...review of Madame Bovary, TIME has a good word for the stars, producer and director. But the guy who, along with Gustave Flaubert, gave all these people, including TIME'S astute reviewer, something to shine at-Screenwriter Robert Ardrey, was referred to only as "the Hollywood version...
Surely, it is at least as much to the credit of Writer Ardrey as Producer Berman and Director Minelli that the picture "stoutly refused to spice up the sin or gloss over the grimness of Emma's life . . ." If writers were not such forgotten men in Hollywood [you might have] a few more good pictures . . . to list as Current & Choice...
Apart from such slippery stunts of cinemagic, Jolson Sings Again is a thumping good musical, handsomely mounted in Technicolor and zestfully played by a talented cast. The trouble is, it may launch a new and frighteningly inconclusive kind of serial. Hollywood gagsters have suggested that, 20 years hence, Columbia might do a musical entitled The Larry Parks Story, showing a young juvenile portraying Parks portraying Jolson...
Black Magic (Edward Small; United Artists) is a viscous, heady brew concocted by a Russian-born Hollywood moviemaker (Gregory Ratoff) out of a turbulent French romance (Alexandre Dumas pere's Memoirs of a Physician) about a swaggering 18th Century charlatan (the so-called Count Cagliostro). The film was made entirely in Italy at a cost of $2,000,000 (more than a billion lire). Hollywood...
Slattery's Hurricane (20th Century-Fox) pins a Hollywood medal on an unsung specialty of the armed forces, U.S. naval aviation's hurricane-tracking service off the Florida coast. But it is the same old celluloid medal-thin, transparent and chipped with wear...