Word: misses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Genevieve Taggard, 53, much-anthologized poetess (For Eager Lovers, Calling Western Union) and biographer (The Life and Mind of Emily Dickinson); of uremia; in Manhattan. Miss Taggard scored an early success with slight lyrics, later slipped when she tried to weight her verses with social significance...
...Miss Tatlock's Millions (Paramount) gives Writer-Producer Charles Brackett another chance to practice his favorite sport of skating on dangerously thin ice. Brackett and his fellow worker Billy Wilder are virtually the only Hollywood practitioners, since the penalty for breaking through the ice is almost certain professional death. Brackett and Wilder have already managed to make movies around such dynamite-loaded topics as divorce, alcoholism, adultery-plus-murder, illegitimacy, the black market in Germany...
...Miss Tatlock, Brackett breaks three major movie taboos: a little fun is poked at insanity, the plot contains a suggestion of incest, and a pair of unregenerate frauds are treated with sympathy. By good humor and skillful gags he manages to avoid giving too much offense. His main device is humor, backed by humaneness. He makes the imbecile (John Lund) likable; he rouses pity for the girl (Wanda Hendrix) who believes, mistakenly, that she is falling in love with her dim-witted brother; and he makes a fair case for the idea that his swindlers (Lund and Barry Fitzgerald...
Loss of the five-year-old honor system in exams was the chief reason for balloting against joint finals," Miss Projansky said. One voter wrote on her questionnaire. "Joint exams would take away the most concrete aspects of the honor system, and leave us only the theory...
...very flossy bird, a great musical Tom stuffed with stars. The producers have given it everything a picture of this sort normally requires for success. Betty Grable is there to show off her pretty ankles and sing some nice tunes. Dan Dailey figures to de-emphasize Miss Grable's mediocre dancing with his own slick routines. The supporting cast of June Havoc, Jack Oakie, and James Gleason couldn't be any better. Gag specialists have written a few high-voltage boffs into the script and the whole thing is packaged in some real nice technicolor. These are the merits...