Word: linda
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...inwardly golden presence of Hap O'Connor (Pat O'Brien), a straw boss in charge of a gang of roughnecks who shuttle from field to field drilling wells. When Johnny saves Hap's life they become friends, exchange cigarets, seldom smile. Hap's girl Linda (Frances Farmer) hates Johnny because he calls her "freckle nose," but that is only a prelude to romance. Hap turns on Johnny for pilfering Linda, but the triangle is straightened out when Hap and Johnny save a burning oil well by slam-bang courage. As in countless previous pictures...
Converting so much talk into a film required virtual scrapping of the Behrman version. Scripters Julius J. and Philip G. Epstein proceeded to remodel Hero Gaylord Esterbrook (James Stewart) into a country bumpkin with an odd flair for bright comedy. His hesitant romance and marriage with Actress Linda Paige (Rosalind Russell) becomes a slapstick backstage burlesque containing the only fun in the film. From then on Epstein gets tangled with Behrman in a confusing hodgepodge of drawing-room wit heavily weighted with dramatic overtones...
...usual. He had raised the hackles of his stooped, shambling, shrewd colleague, Pat Harrison, by backing onetime Governor Martin Sennett ("Mike") Conner against Harrison for the Senate in 1936, and of Mike Conner, by helping to beat him for the Governorship last year. Worse, his fat, bespectacled ex-wife Linda publicly denounced him for cruelty and infidelity. Opposed by popular onetime Governor Hugh Lawson White...
Safari (Paramount). A graduating class of Columbia University, asked to say with whom they would best like to be cast adrift on a desert island, chose blonde, ladylike Madeleine Carroll. Safari promises to reduce this dream to reality when, as Linda Stewart, Cinemactress Carroll is taken by her wealthy admirer Baron de Courland (Tullio Carminati) on a jungle expedition led by dashing Jim Logan (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.). When the matter-of-fact Baron spends most of his time bagging specimens, Linda undertakes to jog him into jealousy and a proposal by flirting with Jim. The moment seems to have arrived...
...light-hearted apologia to scores of young hopefuls whom Hollywood calls west for screen tests each year only to send most of them home again. But Hollywood gets so interested in itself it forgets to apologize. More exciting to most cinemaddicts than the plot about the waitress (Linda Darnell) and the chump football hero (John Payne) who click before the cameras will be the game of identifying the Hollywood counterparts of the wicked casting director (Donald Meek), the actor who has superannuated into a talent scout (Roland Young). In the headstrong, somewhat brassy producer (William Gargan...