Word: loewe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Private Affairs of Bel Ami (Loew-Lewin; United Artists) is the latest example of Albert Lewin's passion for bringing musky literary classics to the screen. Writer-Director Lewin is responsible for movie versions of Maugham's The Moon & Sixpence and Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray. His adaptation of Maupassant's coldly sardonic novel Bel Ami is his smoothest job to date. But it also clearly defines the limitations of Mr. Lewin's kind of movie...
With a cry for his "Mammy" and a Jolson-like rasp agitating his Adam's apple to the tune of "You Made Me Love You," Edward M. Lamont '48 tossed his Hasty Pudding and Eliot House inhibitions to the winds of the Loew's State air conditioner last night and triumphantly made his way to the finals of the publicity-born Al Jolson singing jamboree...
...guaranteed Deborah a certain sum after British taxes. To Hollywood the price seemed prohibitive. Poor Deborah languished as helplessly as the rich man with the needle's-eye view of heaven. Then, suddenly, she became more like a bone at the vortex of a dogfight. MGM, Sam Goldwyn, Loew-Lewin, Hal Wallis and J. Arthur Rank were all trying to get at her. It was M-G-M which finally bought out Pascal, and gave her a new contract. For an unknown it was fairly fabulous-a document to raise loud whistles in front offices and low moans...
Rage in Heaven--Bergman again, with Robert Montgomery this time. Now at Loew's State and Orpheum...
Holiday in Mexico--at Loew's State and Orpheum--All the ingredients of a mediocre musical in this Iturbi-Pidgeon-McDowell opus and it turns out to be just that. Jane Powell lifts the level just a little...