Word: janes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Warner hit a headline jackpot. She lured a psychologist with a psycho-galvanometer (a gadget that measures emotional reactions) into the Pavilion. Her report: ¶ Critic Walter Wilcox of the Sunday Dispatch, who had penned a cool review, had a warm, 24-centimeter reaction to a close-up of Jane Russell's parted lips. ¶Hostile Critic Dick Richards of the Sunday Pictorial registered a more-than-friendly 28 centimeters to Jane in a loose bodice...
...lady moviegoer, who claimed indifference to sex on the screen, hit 29 centimeters when Jane prepared to share a gentleman...
...psychologist's conclusions: 1) average response to the film's Tchaikovsky background music-15 centimeters; 2) average reaction to Jane-22 centimeters; 3) average reaction to Jane with a Tchaikovsky background-34 centimeters. Press agent Warner's summary: "Tchaikovsky + Jane Russell...
Robert Flemming and Jane Baxter are more than perfect as Algy and Cecily, but the brave attempts of Pamela Brown, miscast in the part of Gwendolyn, are somewhat negated by her unfittingly low voice. The decor by Motley is more than suitable: it rivals the more famous work of Cecil Beaton on this year's "Lady Windermere...
...Yearling. Gregory Peck and Jane Wyman in an expensive Technicolored version of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' novel about poor folks in Florida's scrub country (TIME...