Word: misses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shakespeare's. Yet both characters and story were plainly hard to bring to full life on the screen. The story is about young Pip (John Mills), a blacksmith's apprentice, who in childhood befriends an escaped convict, Magwitch (Finlay Currie), and a rich, decaying recluse, Miss Havisham (Martita Hunt).When Pip is still a very young man, he is snatched from poverty into Great Expectations. Miss Havisham's subtle attorney Jaggers (F. L. Sullivan) holds a fortune in trust for him, the gift of an anonymous benefactor. Pip sets out for London to learn...
...Hecht screenplay is Adolph Menjou playing a Hollywood producer whose movies nosedive until he meets a wholesome miss (Andrea Leeds) with the proper pedestrian slant concerning what the public wants. She becomes his private consultant--"Miss Humanity"--on the plain citizen's tastes in story twists. Instructions explicitly forbid her mingling in film colony circles where she might "go Hollywood;" one night she dares venture into a hamburger wagon where Kenny Baker sings while he flips ("love walked right in . . . and drove the shadows away") in a romantic golden voice custom-built for Mr. Plain Citizen. Sugar daddy Menjou gets...
...Mother of Us All turned out to be Proto-Feminist Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906). But Gertrude did not hesitate to drag in characters of other eras-notably a pair of folks archly named Gertrude S. and Virgil T. (Gertrude did not look like Miss Stein, nor Virgil like Mr. Thomson). Another, born of her delight with G.I.s, was called Jo the Loiterer. Hapless Andrew Johnson turned up, groaning throughout, "It's cold weather . . . wherever I am." And John Adams sniffed, "Do not pity me; I am an Adams and not pitiable...
...Fouls. Close by, as the horses lined up for the start, sat Millionaire Cattleman Robert Kleberg, who had passed up a chance to see his great horse Assault win the $40,000 Grey Lag Handicap at New York's Jamaica track. He had posted his $15,000 on Miss Princess, the race track horse he had converted to quarter horsing. Unlike Shue Fly, who is really a glorified range horse and bred for short racing, Princess was royally sired (by Kentucky Derby winner Bold Venture). She had once flashed dizzy speed on regulation race tracks-but couldn...
Sterne had his first big show in Berlin, spent a year in a Greek monastery, moved on to India, Burma, Java, and finally Bali. He had never heard of Bali, went there only because he happend to miss the boat to Borneo. But Bali held Sterne for two years, and he can still remember much of it in detail simply by closing his eyes. At first Sterne felt no desire to paint there ("It was art"), but the paintings he brought back with him helped to make Bali a dreamer's byword across the U.S. He feels sure that...