Word: motions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ingrid Bergman, who has won several prizes herself, won one for Photographer Charles Welbourne by managing to look like a woman who could never understand Ingrid Bergman (see cut). The International Society of Photographic Arts voted the print the Most Provocative Motion Picture Still...
...these days is historical drama, and the motion picture producers aren't forgetting it. Brushing aside any facts that might stand in their way the wily movie magnates have made of Dolly Madison something more than "mine gracious hostess" and daring rescuer of the portrait of George Washington. For, ensconced within the charming structure of Ginger Rogers, she is capable of tap-dancing, being psychoanalized and bewitching young men of good family. She does none of these, however, but there is an omnipresent suspicion that she might, at any moment, go into her routine...
...lasted more than half a century. He had been a vaudeville juggler and a big name in musicomedy for decades before the sound track was invented. But millions would remember only one W. C. Fields-the gentle grifter who convulsed them in the '30s as a star of motion pictures and the radio...
...through the disguise of his prosperity. And though he suffered occasional grandiose outbursts of generosity, he hoarded his money with fierce cunning. Then in the crash of 1929 he lost it all ($250,000). Broke, aging, he headed back to Hollywood. He did not reach the zenith of his motion picture career without battles. He distrusted directors. He had no faith in writers (although he occasionally tried to steal their lines) and wanted to do his own stories. He finally had his way. Result: an impressive string of successes-David Copper field, Poppy, Bank Dick, My Little Chickadee...
...detonation of the atomic bomb in New Mexico on July 16, 1945, gave Leet and his seismographs an excellent opportunity for measuring ground motion. Although the bomb was exploded in the air, its energy was delivered to the ground in a single vertical impact producing both airborne and earthborne waves...