Word: mgm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Editors Kaufman & Hennessey, "[but] none of them is included . . . for the reason that they were withheld by their recipients." But this collection of Woollcott's letters is jampacked with anecdotes about Woollcott's distinguished friends & enemies, touching stories couched in the Little-Womanish prose that led MGM's Howard Dietz to rechristen his friend "Louisa M. Woollcott...
...tried its hand at--and there have been a lot of them--"Gaslight" is the first this reviewer can remember that doesn't falter, drag, or lose interest because of plot involvement or sheer length. Although it runs for 104 minutes, it is difficult to see where any of MGM's great amount of footage could...
Last night, after much ado in the Boston papers, "Lassie Come Home" arrived at the Loew's State and Orpheum theatres. Surprising as it may seem after reading the rather insipid advertisements, the picture is one of the finest to come out of MGM in recent years. It ranks, as the ads have said, with "Random Harvest" and "Mrs. Miniver." But, instead of the case being "great books make great pictures," it is a situation where the acting of a collie has made an overly-sentimental book into a really touching picture...
...Cross of Lorraine (MGM) is a remarkable melodrama about a cruel and magnificent subject-escape from a German military prison for French soldiers...
Purely on the basis of advance reviews, this one looks like a must for Lana Turner fans only. These must number well in the millions, so MGM probably isn't worrying. In any case, if you expect something more than sexy shots in a movie, you'll be disappointed. The other feature, "Harrigan's Kid," is just what the title would lead you to expect...