Word: kanes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gootenberg claims that RKO and Universal are the few outlets which can supply the films which will attract large audiences. In past months the H.L.U. has shown Citizen Kane, Great Expectations and a number of Charlie Chaplin films...
Orson's fascination with the echoes of his own voice on the sound track (a hangover from Citizen Kane) sometimes makes his Macbeth resemble an unmannerly uproar in a coal mine. The on-again-off-again use of a Scotch burr by some of the actors, including the star, does not help; but the production's main fault is that Welles and his leading lady (Jeanette Nolan) play their roles, for most of 95 minutes, at the top of their lungs...
Orson Welles has always annoyed some people because of his ability to keep them awake in the theater. Coming to Hollywood from Mars, Welles' first movie, "Citizen Kane," set the film industry on its ear and sent William Randolph Hearst on Mr. Welles. Recognizing that he was Kane, Hearst has since allowed none of his papers to mention Welles and has forbidden at least one studio to touch his work. In a town that is totally dependent on publicity for its survival, such opposition has made it tough for Welles to make the kind of pictures he wants to make...
Died. Gregg Toland, 44, top Hollywood cameraman (The Long Voyage Home The Best Years of Our Lives) famed for his combination of creative imagination and technical skill; of coronary thrombosis; in Los Angeles. Toland introduced revolutionary innovations which contributed to the critical success oi such movies as Citizen Kane and the Oscar-winning Wuthering Heights, just before he died was concentrating on the ultimate focus" lens (which makes both near and far objects equally distinct...
This squad will be augmented for Commencement Day by Grace Anthony '49, Marie Benedetti '49, Virginia Cass '49, Elizabeth Crowley '49, Ann Devney '49, Natasha Drury '49, Josephine Fiske '49, Shirley Goldman '49, Marion Hayes '49, Charlotte Horwood '49, Nancy Kane '49, Winifred Libbon '49, Ruth Marshall '49, Frances McDonald '49, Ann Murphy '49, Ruth Reichart '49, Elizabeth Zacharchuk '49, Joan Braverman '50, Nina Emerson '50, Nancy Rodriguez '50, Lucia Toscano '50, Joan Bresnahan '51, Hanni Ehren theil '51, Barbara Fitzgerald '51, and Jean O'Brien...