Word: meredith
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...outshone by Griffin, Shinola shoe polish also took to the air last Saturday (10 to 10:30 a.m. E.S.T., NBC-Red) with Play Actor Burgess Meredith (a radio serial alumnus) in a weekly series called Lincoln Highway. Last week's pedestrian episode along the famed 3,400-mile, coast-to-coast road was a low-budget It Happened One Night, whose boy-girl hitchhikers fall in love in a barn near Valparaiso (Ind.), instead of in a tourist cabin...
...Burgess Meredith as George, Lon Chaney, Jr. as Lennie, and Betty Field as Mae, give an emotionally high-strung performance without ever falling into sentimentality or affectation. An exceptionally successful use of sound effects and close-ups occasionally stretches the nerves of the audience to the breaking point. But it is not these technical niceties, not even the heartfelt acting, which make "Of Mice And Men" a great picture. It is its bare-faced simplicity, its unpretentions conception of the relations between mind and man, between man and annual. For once, the movie industry has gone...
...Mice and Men (Lon Chaney Jr., Burgess Meredith, Betty Field; TIME...
...Mice and Men (Lon Chaney Jr., Burgess Meredith, Betty Field; TIME...
...Mice and Men (Lon Chaney Jr., Burgess Meredith, Betty Field; TIME...