Word: lende
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...outing at the Western Golf Club and the Class Dinner at the Continental. Today a luncheon in Adams House will precede the parade. The dress will include white trousers in striking uniformity; beyond this the secrecy which is traditionally practiced before the parade to lend suspense shrouds details...
Selznick agreed to lend Korda his constellation of stars* in return for western hemisphere ownership of all pictures they might make in England. For the first time, Korda had something like the weight he needs to wrestle with Rank for the British box office. He promptly made plans to star Jennifer Jones in a Technicolor version of Tess of the D'Urbervilles, and Gregory Peck in a Technicolored Tale of Two Cities. Also on the schedule: Joseph Conrad's An Outcast of the Islands, Aldous Huxley's Point Counter Point, Thomas Mann's Magic Mountain, Jules...
...coincidences are almost forgiven. The first striking device employed to lift the picture out of the depths in which American movies usually remain mired is the use of French, German, or Russian whenever they would ordinarily be spoken. While never employed so as to confuse the plot, the languages lend an authenticity that is seldom realized in motion pictures. Then, as the scene moves from the streets of Paris, which actually are the streets of Paris, through Gare de l'Est and via the Berlin express into Germany, the marked degree of authenticity is preserved at all times. While...
...Screen Plays' tiny poke had already shrunk to a mere $7,000. It was high time to go to the bank. Negotiations began with a bang. "Who," asked the Bank of America, "are you? And who is Henry Morgan?" After some fast talking, the bank was persuaded to lend $650,000. That left about $500,000 still to be found. Screen Plays wrote off about half of it in deferred salaries and studio overhead charges, sold a 50% interest in the picture to raise the rest (including $150,000 to be put up as additional security for the bank...
...only truth. The men in the camps are no Nazis, they are democrats who fought against the Nazis and their despotism, and now if they saw that the Russians meant yet a much more despotism, while former officers and Nazis, who were in schools in Russia lend our country...