Word: loews
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...photography may be among the best in the business. But the plot seems always to be long and harrowing. That's how it was with "The Mortal Storm"; that's how it was with "Escape"; and now that's how it is with "So Ends Our Night" at Loew's. The cast includes some extremely sincere and convincing portrayals. Frederic March as the indomitable Steiner does some of the best acting in his career. Margaret Sullivan, the perennial refugee, is her usually beautifully serious self. Eric Von Stroheim succeeds in making himself as repulsive as a good Nazi should...
...made producers hold their breath with suspense. Most expert piece of propaganda that has come from Hollywood so far, it may be the end of one anti-Nazi cycle or the beginning of another. So Ends Our Night is the work of an upstart team of independent producers: David Loew, onetime vice president of Loew's Inc., the theatre chain his father Marcus Loew founded, and Harvardman Albert Lewin, onetime instructor in English at the University of Missouri. Lewin was associate producer (with the late Irving Thalberg) of such M. G. M. hits as Mutiny on the Bounty...
...tackling So Ends Our Night, Producers Loew & Lewin evidently tossed a large part of their Hollywood experience out the window, turned to European studios for guidance. It has the pace and scenic variety of a British thriller (The 39 Steps, Night Train}, some of the photographic intensity of pre-war French and German films. Unlike many previous U. S. anti-dictator films, it has maturity as well as indignation...
...Garden to see the opening show of the 1941 professional tennis tour, promoted, like its three predecessors, by Wilson Sporting Goods Co. For headliners, the producers had chosen two ingenues: U. S. Singles Champion Alice Marble (straight from a week's appearance in vaudeville at Broadway's Loew's State Theatre) and Britain's No. 1 woman player, Mary Hardwick, stranded in the U. S. since the outbreak of World War II. But the performer most of the crowd had come to see was Bill Tilden, the Old Master, in his age-defying...
...country's 8,500,000 stockholders, extra and special dividends came almost too fast to count. Items: Allied Chemical, $2; American-Hawaiian Steamship, $1.75; Loew's Inc., $1; J. C. Penney, $2; U. S. Gypsum, $1. The New York Journal of Commerce estimated that they would bring the year's total to $3,565,000,000, up 13% from 1939, 27% from...