Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...given Corwin the green light for a sustaining summer series. Furthermore, instead of a late-night spot to which such worthy projects are usually relegated, CBS assigned Corwin to the desirable Tuesday 9-9:30 p.m. time. Corwin corrailed a crew of Hollywood professionals (Groucho Marx, Keenan Wynn, Sylvia Sidney, Ronald Colman) and labored mightily on his favorite stock in trade: the supremacy of the common man. But this time all he brought forth were tired platitudes, well-worn dramatic tricks, cacophonic sound effects. Corwin's Hooper rating dropped to the lowest of all big-time evening shows...
Uncle Harry (Universal) is a thriller, produced by Alfred Hitchcock's onetime secretary, Joan Harrison, whose murder thriller Phantom Lady (TIME, Feb. 24, 1944) established her as one of Hollywood's talented producers. Her second offering, a Broadway play adaptation, is again directed by able Robert Siodmak, and again features a vivid performance by Ella Raines. Uncle Harry is better done than its predecessor, more human, subtler, more exciting...
Major Richard I. Bong's 21-year-old widow, Marjorie, announced that she had started writing a biography of the ace of aces a month before his death (without telling him) and would now settle down to finishing it, in Hollywood...
Often implausible and clumsy, Jealousy includes some good melodrama and Intelligent cinema. The refugee is well conceived and extremely well played by Nils Asther. Even better is his kindly fellow refugee (Hugo Haas). The domestic quarrels and crises are venomous and painful, well beyond Hollywood's normal handling of such unpleasantness. Karen Morley, who has not made a picture in years, is still one of the most attractive and individual cinemactresses...
...picture's decor is not just the usual glossy set of illustrations, it is lively and eager in movie terms. Hollywood's streets, outskirts, diners and small bars, with which the picture is liberally sprinkled, give it the special vitality of actual time and place. And the film is capable of poetry as well as naturalism. (Sample: a subtle slowing of motion to heighten the sinister mood of a scene in which the neurotic writer, in order to torture his wife, tosses poisoned food to some flying gulls...