Word: isn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Paramount didn't borrow Warner's Bogart for a part that Bogart might have filled and they have done better with MacMurray who isn't quite so stony. Bogart makes a good detective, a good thug, and a good martyr, but the boy with the light comedy past comes through with the best performance of his career...
...insurance-claims investigator, Robinson plays his usual stock role and steals several scenes from MacMurray. Walter Noff (MacMurray) isn't as smart as his chief, however, and Robinson scraps his perfect crime to save the insurance company $100,000. But there isn't a trite "crime doesn't pay" line anywhere...
Said one of them, in good English: "It's a very hot day, isn't it?" Said Captain Roosevelt...
...fighting for the right to throw pop bottles at the umpire in Brooklyn. That's one way of looking at it. We're fighting for our way of life. That doesn't mean we are trying to make the rest of the world like America - plumbing isn't everything. But we can hope that the rest of the world will come to like many of our ways and adopt them." Sylvia Sidney, declaring herself ready to resume her sultry stage and cinema career after three years of retirement received some nicely timed publicity, courtesy of something...
...Wiry, nervous Lutes works at a white-hot pace, never stops. On his last trip to England he found himself one day with every single job done. Characteristically, with the heat left over he cooked up a sizable stew of new ideas, handed them to his aides, cracked: "It isn't good for me to be idle for a day. I think up too many things for other people...