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...playmates, is Homer's kid brother. He constantly asks unanswerable questions, learns about life from such simple but significant incidents as a Negro's friendly wave from a passing freight train. Other Macauleys: Mother (Fay Bainter), Sister Bess (Donna Reed), who goes to college, and Brother Marcus (Van Johnson), who is in the Army...
...adventures: Homer's delivery of a War Department message to a dead soldier's mother; Ulysses' & friends' raid on a forbidden apricot tree; the pursuit of Tom Spangler by a rich young pretty (Marsha Hunt); Bess and her girl friend picking up three lonely soldiers; Marcus playing hymns on his concertina in a troop train. The sum total of these screen adventures never quite attains the soaring enthusiasm of Saroyan's novel, and some of the preaching is hard to take. Yet at its best The Human Comedy is immensely moving. Even its preaching sometimes...
Under Zacharias the Salt Lake City took part in the first offensive U.S. action of the war by shelling Wotje in the Marshalls. Three weeks later old Swayback poured avenging hell into Wake, then went on to Marcus Island, only 1,000 miles from Tokyo, to protect a carrier whose planes set the Japs to jittering in their own backyard...
...weather in Private William Saroyan's private world was wonderful: The Human Comedy, his first novel, was the new Book-of-the-Month Club bestseller; The Human Comedy, his first movie, had a blinding première on Broadway; Carol Marcus, striking 18-year-old actress (in two Saroyan shows), daughter of Bendix Aviation Vice President Charles Marcus, girl friend of Gloria Vanderbilt de Cicco, became Mrs. William Saroyan. They were married in Dayton, where the 34-year-old groom writes training films for the Signal Corps. The ceremony was quiet: so was the unpredictable playwright, who shattered...
...nervous, impulsive bachelor, Grauman has not drunk for 30 years. But he smokes four packs of cigarets a day, plays gin rummy for high stakes all night, breakfasts in midafternoon. He loves gags and practical jokes, once got Marcus Loew to give an impassioned pep talk in a darkened room to 75 dummies; once persuaded Charlie Chaplin to enter a Charlie Chaplin impersonation contest. Chaplin won third prize: $1. Grauman credits all his success to "the Big Boss Upstairs"-"God," he says, "does my shows...