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...Along with his more prolific brother, Harry B. Smith, who died in 1936, still remembered for his lyrics (They Wouldn't Believe Me; The Sheik of Araby) and librettos (Robin Hood; The Serenade...
...echo of the good old days in the sight of Churchill making the V sign from his big, black Humber, the red, blue & gold flag of his honorary title, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, bravely flying from its fender, and the deep blue ribbon of Conservatism decorating its hood...
Groggle is convinced that "if the American woman is headed straight for a mental hospital, it's pretty safe to conclude she took her first step in college." He wants to see more "education-for-mother-hood." This usually consists of "a series of housekeeping hints and a constant reiteration of the joyous fact that women can have babies-a proposition that most females in our culture catch on to before they are out of the sandbox...
...wolf gazed hungrily at the shapely maiden. Then he drooled and howled. But no moviegoer ever saw that scene from MGM's cartoon, Red Hot Riding Hood. Hollywood's censor, the Breen office, which hardly blinks at a human wolf on the screen, turned a prompt thumbs-down on the cartoon version. Last week Producer Walter Lantz sounded off on some other rules of cartoon censorship...
...movie is faithful to Williams' original characterization of Blanche DuBois, a faded and schizophrenic Southern belle who sinks progressively into a romantic dreamland of Southern lady hood. Stanley, her brother-in-law, heaves her off the tightrope of sanity after he hears of a previous stage of her illness, a sexual frenzy that, as it is described in hearsay, seems to have been not nymphomania but the frantic efforts of a schizoid to stay consciously alive. Vivien Leigh's performance is as much a tour de force as was Williams' creation of the role...