Word: mosses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dark" is a complex job, as was the show, which required a revolving stage, and parts of it are worth the price of admission. The technicolor is gorgeous, and the setting impressive, making the whole movie a gorgeous spectacle. It has many of the bits that made the Moss Hart production the hit of 1941, but it doesn't go over entirely; and it's hard to place the blame...
Winged Victory. Moss Hart's large-scale, warmhearted tribute to the Air Forces (TIME...
Lady in the Dark (Paramount] is $3,000,000 worth of free advertising for psychoanalysis and more than your money's worth of entertainment, if you can comfortably contemplate the id in Technicolor. In any case, this screen version of Moss Hart's Broadway hit is a munificent, ingenious show, as artificial, colorful and shakily pretty as a cathedral made of Jello...
...been stage-struck since childhood. Living in Manhattan, he chose to go to a high school in Brooklyn because Jane Cowl and other stagefolk had gone there. He dashed straight from Brown University to Broadway, sat around in automats dissecting the drama with an aspiring young friend named Moss Hart. Later he sat at the feet of "the master," Jed Harris. Harris produced Wonder Boy, and Wonder Boy produced Hollywood offers. But Hollywood (Craig's Wife, Yellow Jack), for Chodorov, is purely bread-&-butter...
...still, dark water, the abandoned, sagging-roofed cabins, the wilderness perfumes of Louisiana that were first intoxicating and then dizzily cloying. When she first saw the gleaming white colonnades of White Cloud flashing through the grove beyond the hedges, the terraces, the live oaks trailing mournful banners of moss, her heart pounded at its ancient, mirage-like beauty...