Word: mervyn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's screen presentation of Lieutenant Ted Lawson's bestseller, "Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo," is a sincere and restrained record of heroism in this war. Director Mervyn LeRoy wisely lets the dramatic quality of Major General Doolittle's remarkable feat develop naturally, unmarred by overdone Hollywood heroics...
...acting honors in this film go to several Chinese patriots, without acting experience, whom Producer Zimbalist and Director Mervyn LeRoy recruited chiefly in San Francisco-a literary scholar, a dealer in antiques, etc. In their probity of demeanor and feeling, they offer a beautiful testimonial to their nation, and testify, as well, to the magnificent possibilities of using non-actors far more generally in films. The acting of the professionals (including Spencer Tracy as Colonel Doolittle) is also sincere and creditable. It is most pleasing, perhaps, in the case of Van Johnson, whose handling of his largest and most serious...
...Graham Greene's fast-paced, improbable story (Went the Day Well?) to a slow-moving, improbable film. Oldtime Director Cavalcanti, heretofore much admired by cinesthetes as a shrewd theorist of sound, is not helped much by William Walton's* undistinguished score, was not wise in splattering Prologist Mervyn Johns's excellent speeches with cheery bird noises...
...Robe (RKO), from Lloyd Douglas' bestseller, will be filmed in Technicolor at a cost of $3½ to 4 million, will run 3½ to 4 hours, and will be directed by Hit-Guarantor Mervyn LeRoy (Random Harvest, Madame Curie). ¶ The Miracle (Warner), based on Max Reinhardt's hyperpituitary Gothic superspectacle, is budget-estimated by Producer Wolfgang (son of Max) Reinhardt at $3,000,000. Biggest casting problem: an actress adequate for the double role of nun and Madonna. The film will be in Technicolor, and will run the better part of four hours...
...book owes much of its punch to Illustrator Mervyn Peake, whose line drawings (see cut, p. 101) blend Tenniel fantasy with George Grosz bitters...